How many baby Julia Creek dunnarts are in a litter?
A Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Sminthopsis). An adult Julia Creek dunnart grows up to a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) is a marsupial with a buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100–135 mm with a tail of 60–105 mm to make a total length of 160–240 mm. Its weight is between 40 and 70 g. The length of the hind foot is 22–24 mm. The species has a dark brown triangle colour from above and below the eye with the point at the nose, and another dark stripe on top of the skull. A healthy dunnart has a carrot-shaped tail filled with fat stores.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Julia Creek dunnart is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dibbler with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Paucident planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Antechinus wilhelmina raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Short-furred dasyure weighting only 161 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Julia Creek dunnart
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- European ground squirrel
- California ground squirrel
- Arctic shrew
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Philippine warty pig
- Muskrat
- Siberian brown lemming
- Desert dormouse
- Eligmodontia typus
Animals with the same weight as a Julia Creek dunnart
What other animals weight around 55 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Great evening bat weighting 49 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis weighting 60 grams
- Malayan water shrew weighting 55 grams
- Arends’s golden mole weighting 52 grams
- Greater noctule bat weighting 45 grams
- Comoro rousette weighting 45 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting 53 grams
- Four-toed jerboa weighting 52 grams
- Palmer’s chipmunk weighting 60 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse weighting 59 grams
Animals with the same size as a Julia Creek dunnart
Also reaching around 9.5 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Visagie’s golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese mole shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rock vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)