How many baby Giant bandicoots are in a litter?
A Giant bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Peroryctidae family (genus: Peroryctes). An adult Giant bandicoot grows up to a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″).
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 giant bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti) is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.The type locality is Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., banks of Goldie River (a tributary of the Laloki River) inland from Port Moresby.
Other animals of the family Peroryctidae
Giant bandicoot is a member of the Peroryctidae, as are these animals:
- Mouse bandicoot raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- David’s echymipera weighting only 817 grams
- Common echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Clara’s echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Papuan bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Giant bandicoot
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Wedge-capped capuchin
- Lesser long-fingered bat
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
- Ruwenzori otter shrew
- Alpine musk deer
- Red deer
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Whiptail wallaby
- African savanna hare
- Chiapan deer mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Giant bandicoot
What other animals weight around 4.8 kg (10.58 lbs)?
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Olive colobus usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat usually reaching 5.49 kgs (12.1 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- Antelope jackrabbit usually reaching 3.93 kgs (8.66 lbs)
- Suni usually reaching 5.63 kgs (12.41 lbs)
- White-striped dorcopsis usually reaching 5.5 kgs (12.13 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Pampas cat usually reaching 4.4 kgs (9.7 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Giant bandicoot
Also reaching around 51.5 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hispid hare gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black crested gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Raccoon dog gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- African brush-tailed porcupine gets as big as 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Celebes crested macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)