How many baby Fat-tailed dunnarts are in a litter?
A Fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 14 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 16 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Sminthopsis). An adult Fat-tailed dunnart grows up to a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae, the family that includes the little red kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian devil. It has an average body length of 60–90 millimeters (2.4–3.5 in) with a tail of 45–70 millimeters (1.8–2.8 in). Ear length is 14–16 millimeters (0.55–0.63 in). One of the smallest carnivorous marsupials, its weight varies between 10–20 grams (0.35–0.71 oz). The tail becomes fat a few mm from the proximal end and remains so right up to the tip. They are eaten by many things, including foxes and cats, as well as other feral animals that live among its environment.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Fat-tailed dunnart is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Julia Creek dunnart with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Sandstone false antechinus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s dunnart weighting only 19 grams
- Kultarr with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Paucident planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Fat-tailed dunnart
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Lesser bandicoot rat
- Southern ningaui
- Vinogradov’s jird
- Taiga shrew
- Yellow steppe lemming
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Sakhalin vole
- Common opossum
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Fat-tailed dunnart
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.25 years:
- Fat-tailed gerbil with 4.33 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Evening bat with 5 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with 5 years
- Southwestern water vole with 3.5 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Tiger quoll with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Fat-tailed dunnart
What other animals weight around 16 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Flat-skulled shrew weighting 13 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat weighting 18 grams
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat weighting 16 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat weighting 15 grams
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat weighting 13 grams
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat weighting 14 grams
- Pocketed free-tailed bat weighting 15 grams
- Orange nectar bat weighting 13 grams
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse weighting 19 grams
- Egyptian free-tailed bat weighting 17 grams