How many baby Common spotted cuscuss are in a litter?
A Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 13 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Spilocuscus). An adult Common spotted cuscus grows up to a size of 45.8 cm (1′ 7″).
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 spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Common spotted cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Ornate cuscus weighting around 1.79 kilograms (3.95 lbs)
- Mountain cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern common cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Telefomin cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scaly-tailed possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silky cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting around 10 kilograms (22.05 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Common spotted cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Domestic yak
- Ground cuscus
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Michoacan deer mouse
- Rhesus macaque
- Sei whale
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Impala
Animals that get as old as a Common spotted cuscus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11 years:
- Jungle cat with 12 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Eastern bettong with 11.75 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
- Quokka with 12 years
- Muskrat with 10 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Pichi with 9 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common spotted cuscus
What other animals weight around 4.06 kg (8.95 lbs)?
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Red-tailed monkey usually reaching 3.54 kgs (7.8 lbs)
- Otter civet usually reaching 4.25 kgs (9.37 lbs)
- Bay cat usually reaching 3.43 kgs (7.56 lbs)
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Crested mona monkey usually reaching 3.58 kgs (7.89 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common spotted cuscus
Also reaching around 45.8 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Menzbier’s marmot gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Nasuella olivacea gets as big as 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-bellied spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Abyssinian genet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- African savanna hare gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)