How many baby Clara’s echymiperas are in a litter?
A Clara’s echymipera (Echymipera clara) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Peroryctidae family (genus: Echymipera). An adult Clara’s echymipera grows up to a size of 34.1 cm (1′ 2″).
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.
Clara’s echymipera (Echymipera clara), or Clara’s spiny bandicoot or white-lipped bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Peroryctidae
Clara’s echymipera is a member of the Peroryctidae, as are these animals:
- Common echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Striped bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mouse bandicoot raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- David’s echymipera weighting only 817 grams
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Papuan bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Clara’s echymipera
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Tolai hare
- Asian black bear
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Murree vole
- Congo rope squirrel
- Maritime striped squirrel
- Banana climbing mouse
- Chiriqui harvest mouse
- Red hocicudo
- American marten
Animals with the same weight as a Clara’s echymipera
What other animals weight around 1.2 kg (2.65 lbs)?
- Rusty-spotted cat usually reaching 1.42 kgs (3.13 lbs)
- Sunda flying lemur usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Greater glider usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Atlantic titi usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Long-nosed echymipera usually reaching 1.05 kgs (2.31 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Fennec fox usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Spotted linsang usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Clara’s echymipera
Also reaching around 34.1 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Epixerus gets as big as 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Telefomin cuscus gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey gets as big as 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Common opossum gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Palawan stink badger gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Aye-aye gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- New England cottontail gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brush rabbit gets as big as 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)