How many baby Dibblers are in a litter?
A Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 7 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 48 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 693 grams (1.53 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Parantechinus). An adult Dibbler grows up to a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Dibbler is the common name for Parantechinus apicalis, an endangered species of marsupial. It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands. It is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia, and the only member of the genus, Parantechinus. The dibbler is a small, nocturnal carnivore with speckled fur that is white around the eyes.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Dibbler is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Wongai ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cinnamon antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dibbler
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Sakhalin vole
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- Taiga shrew
- Washington ground squirrel
- Southern ningaui
- Piute ground squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Dibbler
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 3.33 years
- Cape mole-rat with 3 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with 3.17 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with 3.17 years
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 3 years
- Japanese shrew mole with 3.5 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with 3.25 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 3 years
- Field vole with 3.25 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Dibbler
What other animals weight around 72 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- Plains viscacha rat weighting 86 grams
- Oecomys phaeotis weighting 73 grams
- Pink fairy armadillo weighting 86 grams
- Arianus’s rat weighting 70 grams
- Master leaf-eared mouse weighting 68 grams
- Madagascan rousette weighting 65 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting 60 grams
- Common mole-rat weighting 74 grams
- Sulawesi rousette weighting 63 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat weighting 85 grams
Animals with the same size as a Dibbler
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern mole gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Allen’s chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Feather-tailed possum gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prairie vole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)