How many baby Eastern barred bandicoots are in a litter?
A Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 253 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Peramelidae family (genus: Perameles). An adult Eastern barred bandicoot grows up to a size of 32.3 cm (1′ 1″).
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 eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) is a small, rabbit-sized marsupial native to Tasmania and Victoria, southeastern Australia. It is one of three extant bandicoot species in the genus Perameles.
Other animals of the family Peramelidae
Eastern barred bandicoot is a member of the Peramelidae, as are these animals:
- Long-nosed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern brown bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Western barred bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern brown bandicoot with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern barred bandicoot
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Maritime striped squirrel
- Mountain beaver
- Wolverine
- Geoffroy’s tamarin
- Western barred bandicoot
- Pouched gerbil
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat
- Common marmoset
- Target rat
Animals that get as old as a Eastern barred bandicoot
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.5 years:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- California ground squirrel with 5 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with 5.33 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 5.5 years
- Saharan striped polecat with 5 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with 5.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern barred bandicoot
What other animals weight around 903 grams (1.99 lbs)?
- Small-toothed sportive lemur weighting 955 grams
- White-eared titi weighting 898 grams
- Black-capped squirrel monkey weighting 802 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel weighting 743 grams
- Guinea pig weighting 728 grams
- Utah prairie dog weighting 900 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat weighting 733 grams
- Red acouchi weighting 949 grams
- Western white-eared giant rat weighting 932 grams
- Azara’s night monkey weighting 929 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern barred bandicoot
Also reaching around 32.3 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Masoala fork-marked lemur gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Menzies’ echymipera gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Giant white-tailed rat gets as big as 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Slender mongoose gets as big as 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mountain beaver gets as big as 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Little Swan Island hutia gets as big as 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Goeldi’s marmoset gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Angolan talapoin gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)