How many baby Long-fingered trioks are in a litter?
A Long-fingered triok (Dactylopsila palpator) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 22 kg (48.49 lbs) and measure 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Petauridae family (genus: Dactylopsila). An adult Long-fingered triok grows up to a size of 23.5 cm (0′ 10″).
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 long-fingered triok (Dactylopsila palpator) is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Petauridae
Long-fingered triok is a member of the Petauridae, as are these animals:
- Tate’s triok weighting only 252 grams
- Squirrel glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Biak glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mahogany glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Great-tailed triok raching a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sugar glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Leadbeater’s possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-fingered triok
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Klipspringer
- Thorold’s deer
- Brazilian big-eyed bat
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Steller sea lion
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
- Springbok
- Sugar glider
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Cave nectar bat
Animals with the same weight as a Long-fingered triok
What other animals weight around 370 grams (0.82 lbs)?
- Uinta ground squirrel weighting 307 grams
- Striped possum weighting 413 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 420 grams
- Colombian spiny rat weighting 312 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat weighting 296 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher weighting 350 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting 422 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 403 grams
- Mutable sun squirrel weighting 390 grams
- Buffy-headed marmoset weighting 374 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-fingered triok
Also reaching around 23.5 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray tree rat gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cotton-top tamarin gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Sikkim rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Abert’s squirrel gets as big as 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Round-tailed muskrat gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed weasel gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)