How many baby New Guinean quolls are in a litter?
A New Guinean quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 19 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus). An adult New Guinean quoll grows up to a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″).
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 New Guinean quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus), also known as the New Guinea quoll or New Guinea native cat, is a carnivorous marsupial mammal native to New Guinea. It is the second-largest surviving marsupial carnivore of New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
New Guinean quoll is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wongai ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Kultarr with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sandstone false antechinus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with New Guinean quoll
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Woolly mouse opossum
- Common shrew
- Northern quoll
- Arctic shrew
- Bobak marmot
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- Alaskan hare
- Stoat
- Siberian brown lemming
- Steppe mouse
Animals that get as old as a New Guinean quoll
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 3 years
- Bicolored shrew with 3 years
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Etruscan shrew with 2.67 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with 3 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 3.33 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with 3 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with 3.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a New Guinean quoll
What other animals weight around 611 grams (1.35 lbs)?
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting 499 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat weighting 621 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel weighting 692 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel weighting 647 grams
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 665 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat weighting 600 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat weighting 489 grams
- Marbled polecat weighting 594 grams
Animals with the same size as a New Guinean quoll
Also reaching around 26.9 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Hispaniolan solenodon gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Solomons flying fox gets as big as 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- San José brush rabbit gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Japen rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sardinian pika gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Back-striped weasel gets as big as 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)