How many baby Paucident planigales are in a litter?
A Paucident planigale (Planigale gilesi) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 15 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Planigale). An adult Paucident planigale grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 paucident planigale (Planigale gilesi), also known as Giles’ planigale, is a very small species of carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Paucident planigale is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Kangaroo Island dunnart weighting only 22 grams
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian devil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Common planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Paucident planigale
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Eastern quoll
- Star-nosed mole
- Social vole
- Slender shrew
- Dusky slender opossum
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Small vesper mouse
- Merriam’s shrew
- Middendorf’s vole
- Lorrain dormouse
Animals that get as old as a Paucident planigale
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Meadow jumping mouse with 5 years
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with 4 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 5.5 years
- Val’s gundi with 5 years
- Abbott’s duiker with 5.42 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Long-legged myotis with 4.25 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with 5.17 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Paucident planigale
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Southern pygmy mouse weighting 9 grams
- Arcuate horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
- Northern bat weighting 10 grams
- Fulvus roundleaf bat weighting 8 grams
- Small bent-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- Chocolate wattled bat weighting 8 grams
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 9 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec weighting 9 grams
- Gray bat weighting 10 grams
- Alpine shrew weighting 8 grams