How many baby Broad-striped dasyures are in a litter?
A Broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Paramurexia). An adult Broad-striped dasyure grows up to a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.It is the only species in the genus Paramurexia.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Broad-striped dasyure is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew raching a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Pilbara ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Broad-striped dasyure
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Polynesian rat
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Black-eared mouse
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
- Red-nosed mouse
- Bower’s white-toothed rat
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew
- Cape York rat
- Cape gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped dasyure
What other animals weight around 53 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Flat-faced fruit-eating bat weighting 47 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat weighting 53 grams
- African wading rat weighting 62 grams
- Andean caenolestid weighting 47 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil weighting 54 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale weighting 43 grams
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 49 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse weighting 54 grams
- Chaco grass mouse weighting 51 grams
- Chestnut-striped opossum weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped dasyure
Also reaching around 12.9 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Gray short-tailed opossum gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rufous mouse opossum gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Champion’s tree mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)