How many baby Mountain cuscuss are in a litter?
A Mountain cuscus (Phalanger carmelitae) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 691 grams (1.52 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Phalanger). An adult Mountain cuscus grows up to a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″).
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 mountain cuscus (Phalanger carmelitae) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Mountain cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Northern common cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scaly-tailed possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting around 10 kilograms (22.05 lbs)
- Eastern common cuscus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silky cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Okapi
- Oncilla
- Sunda slow loris
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Molossops planirostris
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Thorold’s deer
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Brown’s pademelon
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain cuscus
What other animals weight around 1.82 kg (4.01 lbs)?
- Angolan genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Indian giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Crested servaline genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare usually reaching 2.02 kgs (4.45 lbs)
- Silvery greater galago usually reaching 1.58 kgs (3.48 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat usually reaching 1.66 kgs (3.66 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Cape hare usually reaching 2.05 kgs (4.52 lbs)
- Burmese ferret-badger usually reaching 1.85 kgs (4.08 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain cuscus
Also reaching around 40.7 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Reclusive ringtail possum gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Hispid hare gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- American marten gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Abyssinian genet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo gets as big as 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black bearded saki gets as big as 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Spotted linsang gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)