How many baby Little red kalutas are in a litter?
A Little red kaluta (Dasykaluta rosamondae) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 49 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasykaluta). An adult Little red kaluta grows up to a size of 17.5 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 little red kaluta or simply kaluta refers to Dasykaluta rosamondae, a species of carnivorous nocturnal marsupial. It lives in the arid regions of northwest Australia. Individuals are around 100 millimetres long and weigh from 20 to 40 grams. They live for about three years in captivity.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Little red kaluta is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wongai ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Antechinus wilhelmina raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Northern quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Little red kaluta
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Bobak marmot
- White-eared opossum
- Raccoon dog
- Crest-tailed mulgara
- Flat-haired mouse
- Eurasian water shrew
- Mindoro black rat
- Julia Creek dunnart
- Günther’s vole
- Flat-headed vole
Animals that get as old as a Little red kaluta
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Coast mole with 3 years
- Eurasian water shrew with 3 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with 3.08 years
- White-footed mouse with 3.17 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Eastern woodrat with 3 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 3.33 years
- White-footed dunnart with 2.5 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 2.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Little red kaluta
What other animals weight around 32 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Texas mouse weighting 27 grams
- Cheesman’s gerbil weighting 28 grams
- Cyclops roundleaf bat weighting 32 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse weighting 34 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil weighting 27 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse weighting 37 grams
- Narrow-headed slender opossum weighting 26 grams
- Nut-colored yellow bat weighting 30 grams
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse weighting 34 grams