How many baby Long-nosed echymiperas are in a litter?
A Long-nosed echymipera (Echymipera rufescens) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Peroryctidae family (genus: Echymipera). An adult Long-nosed echymipera grows up to a size of 45.3 cm (1′ 6″).
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-nosed echymipera (Echymipera rufescens), or long-nosed spiny bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Peroryctidae
Long-nosed echymipera is a member of the Peroryctidae, as are these animals:
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- David’s echymipera weighting only 817 grams
- Striped bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Clara’s echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mouse bandicoot raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-nosed echymipera
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Southern pocket gopher
- Desert woodrat
- Leopard cat
- Giant otter
- Eastern rat
- Guaira spiny rat
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Lundomys
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
Animals that get as old as a Long-nosed echymipera
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.83 years:
- Eurasian water shrew with 3 years
- Silvery mole-rat with 3.08 years
- Field vole with 3.25 years
- Eastern woodrat with 3 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with 2.67 years
- Allen’s big-eared bat with 3.17 years
- Southwestern myotis with 3.17 years
- Dibbler with 3 years
- Water opossum with 3 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with 2.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed echymipera
What other animals weight around 1.05 kg (2.32 lbs)?
- Woylie usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Western quoll usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Red-bellied titi weighting 962 grams
- Northern bettong usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Northern viscacha usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel usually reaching 1.16 kgs (2.56 lbs)
- Tailless tenrec weighting 894 grams
- Hooded skunk usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Cinereus ringtail possum weighting 977 grams
- Ashy black titi weighting 992 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed echymipera
Also reaching around 45.3 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- De Brazza’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Raffles’ banded langur gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Burmese ferret-badger gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- American mink gets as big as 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Small Indian civet gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Dice’s cottontail gets as big as 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Diana monkey gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)