How many baby Parantechinus bilarnis are in a litter?
A Parantechinus bilarni (Parantechinus bilarni) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 38 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 693 grams (1.53 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Parantechinus). An adult Parantechinus bilarni grows up to a size of 9.6 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.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Parantechinus bilarni is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Common planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew raching a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Northern quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals that share a litter size with Parantechinus bilarni
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Botta’s pocket gopher
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- Himalayan shrew
- Malayan weasel
- Gunnison’s prairie dog
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil
- Turkestan rat
- New England cottontail
- Hazel dormouse
Animals that get as old as a Parantechinus bilarni
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Northern brown bandicoot with 3 years
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Highland streaked tenrec with 2.58 years
- Smith’s vole with 3.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 2.67 years
- White-footed dunnart with 2.5 years
- Black myotis with 3.5 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with 2.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Parantechinus bilarni
What other animals weight around 23 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Cape spiny mouse weighting 21 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Sinaloan mastiff bat weighting 22 grams
- Brazilian big-eyed bat weighting 19 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes weighting 20 grams
- Mediterranean pine vole weighting 22 grams
- White-bellied yellow bat weighting 20 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil weighting 27 grams
- Railer bat weighting 22 grams
- Southern grasshopper mouse weighting 21 grams
Animals with the same size as a Parantechinus bilarni
Also reaching around 9.6 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- New Guinean planigale gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Akodon spegazzinii gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)