How many baby Sandhill dunnarts are in a litter?
A Sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Sminthopsis). An adult Sandhill dunnart grows up to a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila) is a species of small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is known from four scattered arid areas of Australia: near Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the southwestern edge of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, and at Yellabinna in South Australia.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Sandhill dunnart is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Carpentarian dunnart weighting only 25 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Pilbara ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian devil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Sandhill dunnart
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Daurian pika
- Small vesper mouse
- Lorrain dormouse
- Western quoll
- Corsac fox
- Sminthopsis laniger
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Tristram’s jird
- Siberian chipmunk
- Least weasel
Animals that get as old as a Sandhill dunnart
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Paucident planigale with 5 years
- Dark kangaroo mouse with 5.42 years
- Saharan striped polecat with 5 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Euphrates jerboa with 4.17 years
- Wood mouse with 4.33 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 5.5 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Bunny rat with 5.5 years
- California ground squirrel with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sandhill dunnart
What other animals weight around 33 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Tyler’s mouse opossum weighting 32 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus weighting 36 grams
- Gray-tailed vole weighting 29 grams
- Fawn hopping mouse weighting 34 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum weighting 30 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum weighting 36 grams
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil weighting 35 grams
- Blackish deer mouse weighting 32 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Rümmler’s brush mouse weighting 29 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sandhill dunnart
Also reaching around 10.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern collared lemming gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- African wading rat gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut tree mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)