How many baby Northern red-sided opossums are in a litter?
A Northern red-sided opossum (Monodelphis brevicaudata) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 7 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 16.28 kg (35.88 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Monodelphis). An adult Northern red-sided opossum grows up to a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″).
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 red-sided opossum or the Guianan short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis brevicaudata, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil. French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
Northern red-sided opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum weighting only 11 grams
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum weighting only 52 grams
- Chestnut-striped opossum weighting only 45 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared opossum with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Chacoan pygmy opossum raching a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum weighting only 29 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Emilia’s gracile opossum weighting only 7 grams
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum raching a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals that share a litter size with Northern red-sided opossum
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Flat-skulled shrew
- Washington ground squirrel
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Common planigale
- Dibbler
- Yellow steppe lemming
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- Vinogradov’s jird
- Lutrine opossum
Animals that get as old as a Northern red-sided opossum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1 years:
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Myosorex varius with 1 years
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 years
- Meadow vole with 0.92 years
- Wood lemming with 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Crowned shrew with 1.08 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with 1 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern red-sided opossum
What other animals weight around 79 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Allen’s chipmunk weighting 89 grams
- Least weasel weighting 79 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 75 grams
- Nimba otter shrew weighting 69 grams
- Cape gerbil weighting 92 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat weighting 66 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat weighting 90 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat weighting 79 grams
- Cauca climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting 74 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern red-sided opossum
Also reaching around 13.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Red-cheeked dunnart gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican vole gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-nosed potoroo gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Allen’s chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)