How many baby Bronze quolls are in a litter?
A Bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 19 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 0.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus). An adult Bronze quoll grows up to a size of 35.6 cm (1′ 3″).
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 bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) is a species of quoll found only in the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands of New Guinea and West Papua. It was discovered in the early 1970s when five specimens were collected, but only described in 1987 when Dr. Stephen Van Dyck of the Queensland Museum examined them and recognised their distinctness. As of February 2013 there are twelve public museum specimens, 8 from traps and 4 from local hunters. It is the largest surviving marsupial carnivore of New Guinea.Very little is known of it; it was previously thought to be an outlying population of the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii).
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Bronze quoll is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Pilbara ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tiger quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed phascogale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled dasyure weighting only 212 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sminthopsis laniger with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bronze quoll
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- European ground squirrel
- Arctic shrew
- Perote ground squirrel
- Uinta chipmunk
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Wyoming pocket gopher
- Eligmodontia typus
- Harris’s antelope squirrel
- Stoat
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Bronze quoll
What other animals weight around 896 grams (1.98 lbs)?
- Yellow ground squirrel weighting 779 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog weighting 964 grams
- Green acouchi weighting 966 grams
- Screaming hairy armadillo weighting 930 grams
- Great flying fox usually reaching 1.02 kgs (2.25 lbs)
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk weighting 960 grams
- Spectacled flying fox weighting 759 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat weighting 745 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bronze quoll
Also reaching around 35.6 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Patagonian weasel gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Blanford’s fox gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern common cuscus gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Gray-bellied night monkey gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern brown bandicoot gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- American mink gets as big as 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)