How many baby Numbats are in a litter?
A Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 14 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Myrmecobiidae family (genus: Myrmecobius). An adult Numbat grows up to a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″).
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 numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is an insectivorous marsupial native to Western Australia and recently re-introduced to South Australia. The species is also known as the noombat or walpurti. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. Once widespread across southern Australia, its range is now restricted to several small colonies and it is considered an endangered species. The numbat is an emblem of Western Australia and protected by conservation programs.
Animals that share a litter size with Numbat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Hispid pocket mouse
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Southern mole vole
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Water opossum
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Darien harvest mouse
- Lesser mole-rat
- Pinyon mouse
- Desert kangaroo rat
Animals that get as old as a Numbat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 4.83 years
- Long-tailed weasel with 7.08 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with 5.17 years
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
- Paucident planigale with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Numbat
What other animals weight around 517 grams (1.14 lbs)?
- Giant tree-rat weighting 584 grams
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy weighting 450 grams
- Musky rat-kangaroo weighting 535 grams
- Pygmy rabbit weighting 437 grams
- Mountain giant Sunda rat weighting 419 grams
- Mauritian flying fox weighting 473 grams
- Giant pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 419 grams
- Allen’s squirrel weighting 465 grams
- Seychelles fruit bat weighting 491 grams
Animals with the same size as a Numbat
Also reaching around 23 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Mindanao treeshrew gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared flying fox gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-tailed squirrel gets as big as 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Amur hedgehog gets as big as 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Kinabalu squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-footed treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Russian desman gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)