How many baby Dusky slender opossums are in a litter?
A Dusky slender opossum (Marmosops fuscatus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 110 grams (0.24 lbs) and measure 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Marmosops). An adult Dusky slender opossum grows up to a size of 13.1 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.
The dusky slender opossum (Marmosops fuscatus) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
Dusky slender opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum becoming 0.75 years old
- Northern red-sided opossum with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum weighting only 112 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting only 34 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum weighting only 36 grams
- White-eared opossum with 6 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting only 15 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum becoming 5 years old
- Chestnut-striped opossum weighting only 45 grams
- Virginia opossum with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dusky slender opossum
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Star-nosed mole
- Lowland streaked tenrec
- Pygmy rabbit
- Olive grass mouse
- Four-striped grass mouse
- Cliff chipmunk
- Smoky shrew
- Persian jird
- Northern grass mouse
- Lorrain dormouse
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky slender opossum
What other animals weight around 46 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat weighting 48 grams
- Djoongari weighting 39 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat weighting 47 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat weighting 39 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse weighting 49 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure weighting 38 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Northern collared lemming weighting 46 grams
Animals with the same size as a Dusky slender opossum
Also reaching around 13.1 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Blind mole gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian garden dormouse gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Banks flying fox gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Garden dormouse gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Flat-headed vole gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sonoma chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)