How many baby Narrow-nosed planigales are in a litter?
A Narrow-nosed planigale (Planigale tenuirostris) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 19 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Planigale). An adult Narrow-nosed planigale grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 narrow-nosed planigale (Planigale tenuirostris) is a species of very small marsupial carnivore of the family Dasyuridae.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Narrow-nosed planigale is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per pregnancy
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-footed dunnart weighting only 15 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian devil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Narrow-nosed planigale
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- American pygmy shrew
- Common degu
- Smoky shrew
- House mouse
- Shaw’s jird
- Sminthopsis laniger
- Long-eared chipmunk
- Middendorf’s vole
- Algerian mouse
- Daurian pika
Animals that get as old as a Narrow-nosed planigale
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 3 years
- Southern bog lemming with 2.5 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with 3.17 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with 3.25 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with 2.83 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with 2.67 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with 2.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 2.67 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with 2.58 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 2.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Narrow-nosed planigale
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Brandt’s bat weighting 5 grams
- Red myotis weighting 5 grams
- Makwassie musk shrew weighting 6 grams
- Little bent-wing bat weighting 7 grams
- Lesser dwarf shrew weighting 5 grams
- Bicolored musk shrew weighting 5 grams
- Stoliczka’s trident bat weighting 6 grams
- Trinidadian funnel-eared bat weighting 6 grams
- Jones’s roundleaf bat weighting 5 grams
- Large-eared gray shrew weighting 5 grams