How many baby Pilbara ningauis are in a litter?
A Pilbara ningaui (Ningaui timealeyi) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 499 grams (1.1 lbs) and measure 2.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Ningaui). An adult Pilbara ningaui grows up to a size of 7.8 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.
The Pilbara ningaui (Ningaui timealeyi), sometimes known as Ealey’s ningaui, is a tiny species of marsupial carnivore found in Australia.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Pilbara ningaui is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Hairy-footed dunnart weighting only 15 grams
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Southern ningaui with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Three-striped dasyure weighting only 223 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Parantechinus bilarni with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dibbler with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pilbara ningaui
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Gansu shrew
- Olive grass mouse
- Uinta ground squirrel
- Grey dwarf hamster
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
- Zarudny’s rock shrew
- Lorrain dormouse
- Meadow jumping mouse
- Siberian chipmunk
Animals that get as old as a Pilbara ningaui
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- White-eared opossum with 1.67 years
- Cinereus shrew with 1.92 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 1.75 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with 2.17 years
- Delany’s mouse with 2 years
- Mongolian gerbil with 2 years
- Grant’s golden mole with 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with 2 years
- Southern red-backed vole with 1.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pilbara ningaui
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew weighting 6 grams
- Large-eared gray shrew weighting 5 grams
- Salenski’s shrew weighting 5 grams
- Nyctophilus arnhemensis weighting 6 grams
- Dwarf dog-faced bat weighting 5 grams
- Wood’s slit-faced bat weighting 7 grams
- Croslet horseshoe bat weighting 7 grams
- Greater bamboo bat weighting 7 grams
- Little brown bat weighting 7 grams
- Elgon shrew weighting 6 grams