How many baby Crest-tailed mulgaras are in a litter?
A Crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 39 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasycercus). An adult Crest-tailed mulgara grows up to a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 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 crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda), is a small to medium-sized Australian carnivorous marsupial and a member of the family Dasyuridae (meaning “hairy tail”) which includes quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, Tasmanian devil and extinct thylacine. The crest-tailed mulgara is among a group of native predatory mammals or mesopredators endemic to arid Australia.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Crest-tailed mulgara is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cinnamon antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Common planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sandstone false antechinus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Crest-tailed mulgara
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Bornean bearded pig
- Roborovski dwarf hamster
- Raccoon dog
- Stoat
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Bronze quoll
- Flat-headed vole
- New Guinean quoll
- European ground squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 7 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with 6 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 8 years
- Coruro with 6 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Hazel dormouse with 6 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crest-tailed mulgara
What other animals weight around 100 grams (0.22 lbs)?
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting 102 grams
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat weighting 92 grams
- Japanese mole weighting 82 grams
- Golden hamster weighting 98 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Malayan field rat weighting 119 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 100 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
Animals with the same size as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Also reaching around 17.5 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush rat gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Striped bush squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Broad-toothed mouse gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-eared chipmunk gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)