How many baby Chestnut dunnarts are in a litter?
A Chestnut dunnart (Sminthopsis archeri) usually gives birth to around 8 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Sminthopsis). An adult Chestnut dunnart grows up to a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 chestnut dunnart (Sminthopsis archeri) is a dunnart that was described by Van Dyck in 1986 and is named because of its chestnut colour in the upperparts of its body. The length from snout to tail is 167–210 mm, of which head to anus is 85–105 mm and tail is 82–105 mm long. The hind foot size is 17–20 mm, ear length is 17–21 mm and weight is 15–20 g.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Chestnut dunnart is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled dasyure weighting only 212 grams
- Carpentarian dunnart weighting only 25 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Antechinus wilhelmina raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pilbara ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Northern quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-footed dunnart weighting only 15 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Chestnut dunnart
Those animals also give birth to 8 babies at once:
- Dusky antechinus
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Narrow-headed vole
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel
- Slender-tailed dunnart
- White-footed dunnart
- Grayish mouse opossum
- Brown rat
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut dunnart
What other animals weight around 16 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Delicate vesper mouse weighting 13 grams
- Neacomys guianae weighting 15 grams
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec weighting 18 grams
- Welwitsch’s bat weighting 15 grams
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat weighting 16 grams
- Halcyon horseshoe bat weighting 18 grams
- Aztec mastiff bat weighting 14 grams
- Glacier Bay water shrew weighting 14 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 19 grams
- Lesser hairy-winged bat weighting 13 grams
Animals with the same size as a Chestnut dunnart
Also reaching around 9.2 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Black-tailed dasyure gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-bellied fruit bat gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hazel dormouse gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-sided opossum gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Swift fruit bat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)