How many baby Desert rat-kangaroos are in a litter?
A Desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Caloprymnus). An adult Desert rat-kangaroo grows up to a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″).
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 desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta, is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to desert regions of Central Australia. It was discovered in the early 1840s and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time.
Other animals of the family Potoroidae
Desert rat-kangaroo is a member of the Potoroidae, as are these animals:
- Boodie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woylie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting only 499 grams
- Long-footed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Desert rat-kangaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Fin whale
- Hooded seal
- Diademed sifaka
- Red forest duiker
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Green bush squirrel
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Agile gibbon
Animals that get as old as a Desert rat-kangaroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13 years:
- Gray mouse lemur with 15.5 years
- Cape grysbok with 14 years
- Speke’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with 10.5 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Leopard cat with 15 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with 12 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 14.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Desert rat-kangaroo
What other animals weight around 929 grams (2.05 lbs)?
- Japanese marten usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Ring-tailed vontsira weighting 815 grams
- Spectacled flying fox weighting 759 grams
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Cuban solenodon weighting 806 grams
- Red-bellied titi weighting 962 grams
- Hispaniolan solenodon weighting 893 grams
- Ashy black titi weighting 992 grams
- Peruvian night monkey weighting 800 grams
- Ollala brothers’s titi weighting 992 grams