How many baby Greater bilbys are in a litter?
A Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 4 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 14 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Peramelidae family (genus: Macrotis). An adult Greater bilby grows up to a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 3″).
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 greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), often referred to simply as the bilby since the lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) became extinct in the 1950s, is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal in the order Peramelemorphia. Other vernacular names include dalgyte, pinkie, or rabbit-eared bandicoot. Greater bilbies live in arid parts of northwestern and central Australia. Their range and population is in decline.
Other animals of the family Peramelidae
Greater bilby is a member of the Peramelidae, as are these animals:
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern brown bandicoot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern brown bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Western barred bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater bilby
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- American marten
- Cairo spiny mouse
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Buffy-tufted marmoset
- Caracal
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Alston’s brown mouse
Animals that get as old as a Greater bilby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Southern tree hyrax with 10 years
- Malayan civet with 12 years
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Quokka with 12 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with 10.5 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with 10 years
- Blanford’s fox with 10 years
- Boodie with 10 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater bilby
What other animals weight around 1.23 kg (2.71 lbs)?
- Muskrat weighting 992 grams
- Rio Mayo titi weighting 992 grams
- Lemur-like ringtail possum weighting 997 grams
- Northern bettong usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Long-nosed echymipera usually reaching 1.05 kgs (2.31 lbs)
- Atlantic titi usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Great flying fox usually reaching 1.02 kgs (2.25 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Green ringtail possum usually reaching 1.15 kgs (2.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Greater bilby
Also reaching around 37.5 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Common kusimanse gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bronze quoll gets as big as 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern bettong gets as big as 33.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit gets as big as 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Golden bamboo lemur gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Selous’s mongoose gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Lesser grison gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)