How many baby Ground cuscuss are in a litter?
A Ground cuscus (Phalanger gymnotis) 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 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Phalanger). An adult Ground cuscus grows up to a size of 45.3 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:
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Ornate cuscus weighting around 1.79 kilograms (3.95 lbs)
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Telefomin cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scaly-tailed possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woodlark cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Stein’s 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:
- Sclater’s guenon
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Mantled guereza
- Bald uakari
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Kinkajou
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Chinese pangolin
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
Animals that get as old as a Ground cuscus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Markhor with 14 years
- Giant otter with 12.83 years
- Bush dog with 10.33 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Short-eared dog with 11 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with 10 years
- Common noctule with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ground cuscus
What other animals weight around 2.6 kg (5.73 lbs)?
- Palawan stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Gray-headed lemur usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
- Orinoco agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- South African springhare usually reaching 2.55 kgs (5.62 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Cape fox usually reaching 2.92 kgs (6.44 lbs)
- Central American agouti usually reaching 2.31 kgs (5.09 lbs)
- Marbled cat usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Lesser cane rat usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ground cuscus
Also reaching around 45.3 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo gets as big as 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sand cat gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Blanford’s fox gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern common cuscus gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bilby gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Omilteme cottontail gets as big as 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-footed cat gets as big as 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Diademed sifaka gets as big as 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- Telefomin cuscus gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)