How many baby Common echymiperas are in a litter?
A Common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 13 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Common echymipera grows up to a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″).
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 common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu), or common spiny bandicoot, is a bandicoot. It is long-snouted even by bandicoot standards. The upper parts are a coarse reddish brown, flecked with spiny buff and black hairs. The tail is short and almost hairless. Length varies between 300 and 400 mm, with the tail accounting for an additional 80 to 100 mm; weight is from 600 to 2000 g.
Other animals of the family Peroryctidae
Common echymipera is a member of the Peroryctidae, as are these animals:
- Mouse bandicoot raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Clara’s echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Striped bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Papuan bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- David’s echymipera weighting only 817 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Common echymipera
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Southern African spiny mouse
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Lesser cane rat
- Platypus
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- African wading rat
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
- Pygmy mouse lemur
- Southern pocket gopher
Animals with the same weight as a Common echymipera
What other animals weight around 825 grams (1.82 lbs)?
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting 872 grams
- Sunda slow loris weighting 940 grams
- Brown-tailed mongoose weighting 711 grams
- Peruvian night monkey weighting 800 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum weighting 765 grams
- Raffray’s bandicoot weighting 905 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot weighting 825 grams
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
- Azara’s night monkey weighting 929 grams
- Hispaniolan solenodon weighting 893 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common echymipera
Also reaching around 27 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Prevost’s squirrel gets as big as 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pygmy rabbit gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Painted ringtail possum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Magellanic tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Giant golden mole gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)