How many baby Eastern bettongs are in a litter?
A Eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Bettongia). An adult Eastern bettong grows up to a size of 33.1 cm (1′ 2″).
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 bettong (Bettongia gaimardi), also known as the Balbo (by the Ngunnawal People who used to keep them as pets), southern bettong and Tasmanian bettong, is a bettong whose natural range includes southeastern Australia and eastern Tasmania.
Other animals of the family Potoroidae
Eastern bettong is a member of the Potoroidae, as are these animals:
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Boodie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-footed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting only 499 grams
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Woylie with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern bettong
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Walrus
- Lowland paca
- Water buffalo
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- Calabar angwantibo
- Mountain cuscus
- Bighorn sheep
- Asian elephant
- Gilbert’s potoroo
Animals that get as old as a Eastern bettong
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11.75 years:
- Malagasy civet with 11 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with 11.33 years
- Brown palm civet with 12 years
- Golden hamster with 10 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
- Royal antelope with 14 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with 12 years
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern bettong
What other animals weight around 1.66 kg (3.67 lbs)?
- White-faced saki usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Eastern common cuscus usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted cat usually reaching 1.42 kgs (3.13 lbs)
- Pel’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat usually reaching 1.66 kgs (3.66 lbs)
- Crested servaline genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eastern bettong
Also reaching around 33.1 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Menzies’ echymipera gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-handed tamarin gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bagobo rat gets as big as 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Giant white-tailed rat gets as big as 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Hispaniolan hutia gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Angolan kusimanse gets as big as 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Angolan talapoin gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Grey-headed flying fox gets as big as 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)