How many baby Northern gracile opossums are in a litter?
A Northern gracile opossum (Gracilinanus marica) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Gracilinanus). An adult Northern gracile opossum grows up to a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 northern gracile opossum (Gracilinanus marica) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
Northern gracile opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Gray slender opossum weighting only 54 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Emilia’s gracile opossum weighting only 7 grams
- Virginia opossum with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Junin slender opossum raching a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Agile gracile opossum with 12 babies per pregnancy
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lutrine opossum with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Delicate slender opossum with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Aceramarca gracile opossum weighting only 20 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Northern gracile opossum
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Shaw’s jird
- Middendorf’s vole
- Red wolf
- Townsend’s vole
- Coyote
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Buxton’s jird
Animals with the same weight as a Northern gracile opossum
What other animals weight around 23 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus weighting 25 grams
- Southern red-backed vole weighting 19 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 21 grams
- White-bellied yellow bat weighting 20 grams
- Crafty vesper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Peromyscus maniculatus weighting 19 grams
- Akodon albiventer weighting 26 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart weighting 22 grams
- Volcano harvest mouse weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern gracile opossum
Also reaching around 9.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Greater Egyptian gerbil gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- False canyon mouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-haired water rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)