How many baby Fawn antechinuss are in a litter?
A Fawn antechinus (Antechinus bellus) usually gives birth to around 10 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 13.5 kg (29.76 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Antechinus). An adult Fawn antechinus grows up to a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 fawn antechinus (Antechinus bellus) is a species of small carnivorous marsupial found in northern Australia. It is the only Antechinus to be found in the Northern Territory and has a patchy, restricted range. Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this animal Mulbu, as they do many rodents . The spelling is given as Mulbbu on the Bininj Kunwok website
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Fawn antechinus is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Tiger quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Northern quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sminthopsis laniger with 5 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed dunnart weighting only 25 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Fawn antechinus
Those animals also give birth to 10 babies at once:
Animals that get as old as a Fawn antechinus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.25 years:
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 2 years
- Common opossum with 2.67 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with 2.5 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with 2.17 years
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with 2 years
- Vagrant shrew with 2.08 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with 2.58 years
- Norway lemming with 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with 2 years
- Australian swamp rat with 2.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Fawn antechinus
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Fawn hopping mouse weighting 34 grams
- Tundra vole weighting 33 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat weighting 32 grams
- Desert mouse weighting 37 grams
- Panamint kangaroo rat weighting 37 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel weighting 43 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel weighting 45 grams
- White-throated grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse weighting 35 grams
Animals with the same size as a Fawn antechinus
Also reaching around 11.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied slender opossum gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western jumping mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ghost bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern three-striped opossum gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Maritime striped squirrel gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Swift fruit bat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)