How many baby Lowland ringtail possums are in a litter?
A Lowland ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus canescens) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pseudocheiridae family (genus: Pseudochirulus). An adult Lowland ringtail possum grows up to a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″).
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 lowland ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus canescens) is a species of marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae. It’s found in Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Pseudocheiridae
Lowland ringtail possum is a member of the Pseudocheiridae, as are these animals:
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli weighting only 256 grams
- Cinereus ringtail possum with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Weyland ringtail possum weighting only 458 grams
- Painted ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Vogelkop ringtail possum weighting only 255 grams
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Painted ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Weyland ringtail possum weighting only 456 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lowland ringtail possum
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cape porcupine
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- African golden cat
- Javanese flying squirrel
- Big deer mouse
- Striped polecat
- Mexican fox squirrel
- Moss-forest rat
- Siberian roe deer
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland ringtail possum
What other animals weight around 300 grams (0.66 lbs)?
- Silky anteater weighting 259 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur weighting 326 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel weighting 333 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weighting 312 grams
- Pallas’s squirrel weighting 283 grams
- Southern African hedgehog weighting 337 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel weighting 300 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum weighting 351 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat weighting 294 grams
- Gray slender loris weighting 254 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lowland ringtail possum
Also reaching around 22.3 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Borneo black-banded squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guadalcanal rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Smoky flying squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater dwarf lemur gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)