How many baby Long-footed potoroos are in a litter?
A Long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 38 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 750 grams (1.65 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Potorous). An adult Long-footed potoroo grows up to a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″).
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.
Long-footed potoroo – Potorous longipes – is a small marsupial found in southeastern Australia, restricted to an area around the coastal border between New South Wales and Victoria. It was discovered in 1967 when an adult male was caught in a dog trap in the forest southwest of Bonang, Victoria. It is classified as vulnerable.Potorous longipes is the largest species of Potorous, resembling the long-nosed Potorous tridactylus. It is a solitary nocturnal creature, feeding on fungi, vegetation and small invertebrates. It differs from the P. tridactylus in its larger feet and longer tail.Current threats to the species include predation by introduced feral cats and foxes, as well as logging within its limited range.
Other animals of the family Potoroidae
Long-footed potoroo is a member of the Potoroidae, as are these animals:
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting only 499 grams
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Boodie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woylie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-footed potoroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Melck’s house bat
- Ground pangolin
- Ground cuscus
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Baikal seal
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Tarabundí vole
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Long-footed potoroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
- Pale fox with 10 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Myotis vivesi with 10 years
- Red-necked pademelon with 9 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- Parti-coloured bat with 12 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-footed potoroo
What other animals weight around 1.84 kg (4.05 lbs)?
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Pel’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Northern brown bandicoot usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Striped hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.01 kgs (4.43 lbs)
- Monk saki usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- Indian giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Long-footed potoroo
Also reaching around 35.9 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Plush-coated ringtail possum gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Chinese pangolin gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese ferret-badger gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Sunda flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Burmese ferret-badger gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Marbled polecat gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-tailed mongoose gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tufted ground squirrel gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)