How many baby Ground cuscuss are in a litter?
A Ground cuscus (Strigocuscus gymnotis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 13 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Strigocuscus). An adult Ground cuscus grows up to a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″).
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 ground cuscus (Phalanger gymnotis) is a marsupial from the order Diprotodontia and belongs within the family Phalangeridae, a diverse family consisting of the other cuscus species and the brushtail possums (Trichosurus spp.) and the scaly-tailed possum (Wyulda squamicaudata).
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Ground cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Black-spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scaly-tailed possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Admiralty Island cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Silky cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ornate cuscus weighting around 1.79 kilograms (3.95 lbs)
- Common brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ground cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Mongolian gazelle
- Black-eared flying fox
- Tibetan antelope
- Northern fur seal
- Northeast African mole-rat
- Common blossom bat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Common minke whale
- Eld’s deer
Animals that get as old as a Ground cuscus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Western tree hyrax with 10 years
- Pronghorn with 12 years
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Side-striped jackal with 11.42 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Greater bilby with 10 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Southern flying squirrel with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ground cuscus
What other animals weight around 2.61 kg (5.75 lbs)?
- Wedge-capped capuchin usually reaching 2.79 kgs (6.15 lbs)
- Yellow-throated marten usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s cat usually reaching 2.73 kgs (6.02 lbs)
- Sand cat usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Omilteme cottontail usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Burmese hare usually reaching 2.27 kgs (5 lbs)
- Hoary marmot usually reaching 2.25 kgs (4.96 lbs)
- Natal red rock hare usually reaching 2.42 kgs (5.34 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ground cuscus
Also reaching around 45.4 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Kinkajou gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-headed spider monkey gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Bahamian hutia gets as big as 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Coppery ringtail possum gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Amami rabbit gets as big as 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- De Brazza’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)