How many baby Broad-striped dasyures are in a litter?
A Broad-striped dasyure (Murexia rothschildi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1.05 kg (2.31 lbs) and measure 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Murexia). 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:
- Antechinus wilhelmina raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-furred dasyure weighting only 161 grams
- Pilbara ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Parantechinus bilarni with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-footed dunnart weighting only 15 grams
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Broad-striped dasyure
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Rakali
- Fulvous harvest mouse
- Red rock rat
- Long-eared hedgehog
- Silky pocket mouse
- Nelson’s pocket mouse
- Pinyon mouse
- Djoongari
- Yucatan deer mouse
- North African hedgehog
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped dasyure
What other animals weight around 54 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat weighting 57 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew weighting 52 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat weighting 63 grams
- Northern collared lemming weighting 58 grams
- Chestnut tree mouse weighting 46 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting 61 grams
- California vole weighting 57 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting 49 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat weighting 47 grams
- Namaqua rock rat weighting 57 grams
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped dasyure
Also reaching around 12.9 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Jentink’s flying squirrel gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Florida mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shining thicket rat gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western water rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)