How many baby Painted ringtail possums are in a litter?
A Painted ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus forbesi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pseudocheiridae family (genus: Pseudocheirus). An adult Painted ringtail possum grows up to a size of 26.5 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 painted ringtail possum or moss-forest ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus forbesi) is a species of marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Pseudocheiridae
Painted ringtail possum is a member of the Pseudocheiridae, as are these animals:
- Coppery ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Herbert River ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lowland ringtail possum with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Herbert River ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Painted ringtail possum
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Giant panda
- Black-mantled tamarin
- Western brush wallaby
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Asian elephant
- Common tsessebe
- Humpback whale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Ground cuscus
Animals with the same weight as a Painted ringtail possum
What other animals weight around 642 grams (1.42 lbs)?
- Insular flying fox weighting 560 grams
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 751 grams
- European mink weighting 567 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 639 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- Numbat weighting 517 grams
- Giant tree-rat weighting 584 grams
- Brush rabbit weighting 716 grams
- Bolivian bamboo rat weighting 729 grams
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting 620 grams
Animals with the same size as a Painted ringtail possum
Also reaching around 26.5 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Javan mongoose gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bagobo rat gets as big as 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-footed tree-rat gets as big as 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lyle’s flying fox gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Amazon bamboo rat gets as big as 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)