How many baby Eastern quolls are in a litter?
A Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 20 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 0.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus). An adult Eastern quoll grows up to a size of 33.3 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 quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), formerly known as the eastern native cat, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are widespread and even locally common in Tasmania. They have been considered extinct on the mainland since the 1960s, however have been reintroduced back into fenced sanctuaries in 2016, and more recently into the wild in March 2018. It is one of six extant species of quolls.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Eastern quoll is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled dasyure weighting only 212 grams
- Kultarr with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Julia Creek dunnart with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Dibbler with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Northern quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew raching a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern quoll
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Variegated squirrel
- Northern grass mouse
- Dark bolo mouse
- Rock dormouse
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Olive grass mouse
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster
- Fat-tailed false antechinus
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Meadow jumping mouse
Animals that get as old as a Eastern quoll
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6.75 years:
- Woylie with 6.5 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- Least chipmunk with 6.25 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 7 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with 5.75 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- Eastern mole with 6.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern quoll
What other animals weight around 1.12 kg (2.46 lbs)?
- Hoffmanns’s titi usually reaching 1.07 kgs (2.36 lbs)
- Rio Beni titi weighting 992 grams
- Long-nosed potoroo usually reaching 1.07 kgs (2.36 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Common opossum usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
- Banded palm civet usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Black flying squirrel usually reaching 1.19 kgs (2.62 lbs)
- Poncelet’s giant rat usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose usually reaching 1.31 kgs (2.89 lbs)
- American mink weighting 904 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern quoll
Also reaching around 33.3 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Chinese ferret-badger gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Pichi gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese hare gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Volcano rabbit gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)