How many baby Kowaris are in a litter?
A Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 674 grams (1.49 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyuroides). An adult Kowari grows up to a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″).
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 kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei), also known as the brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne’s crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat and kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia. It is monotypical in its genus.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Kowari is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled dasyure weighting only 212 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Kowari
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Asian garden dormouse
- Long-eared chipmunk
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog
- Dalton’s mouse
- Siberian chipmunk
- Persian jird
- Christy’s dormouse
- Lorrain dormouse
- Olive grass mouse
Animals that get as old as a Kowari
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Jamaican coney with 8.25 years
- North African hedgehog with 7 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
- Tailless tenrec with 6.25 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with 5.67 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum with 6 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 8 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kowari
What other animals weight around 109 grams (0.24 lbs)?
- Big-eared hopping mouse weighting 89 grams
- Hastings River mouse weighting 95 grams
- Southern climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat weighting 119 grams
- Slender treeshrew weighting 112 grams
- Northern pika weighting 120 grams
- Taiga vole weighting 92 grams
- Angoni vlei rat weighting 100 grams
- Himalayan field rat weighting 100 grams
- Large tree mouse weighting 95 grams
Animals with the same size as a Kowari
Also reaching around 15.8 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plateau pika gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silky anteater gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gansu pika gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Coruro gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Altai mole gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)