How many baby Sandstone false antechinuss are in a litter?
A Sandstone false antechinus (Pseudantechinus 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 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Pseudantechinus). An adult Sandstone false antechinus 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.
The sandstone false antechinus, Pseudantechinus bilarni, also known as the sandstone pseudantechinus, the sandstone antechinus, the sandstone dibbler, Harney’s antechinus and the Northern dibbler, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial, which has a patchy distribution in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Sandstone false antechinus is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew raching a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cinnamon antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Pilbara ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sandstone false antechinus
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Olympic marmot
- Ornate shrew
- European water vole
- Sody’s tree rat
- Long-tailed dunnart
- Long-clawed ground squirrel
- Alpine chipmunk
- White-nosed coati
- Mountain cottontail
- Montane wood mouse
Animals that get as old as a Sandstone false antechinus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Broad-footed mole with 3 years
- Woodland vole with 2.75 years
- Lutrine opossum with 3 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with 2.42 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with 3 years
- White-footed mouse with 3.17 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 3.33 years
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 3.25 years
- Southwestern myotis with 3.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sandstone false antechinus
What other animals weight around 23 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Blackish grass mouse weighting 19 grams
- Cape spiny mouse weighting 21 grams
- Altiplano grass mouse weighting 20 grams
- Savanna swamp shrew weighting 19 grams
- Northern gracile opossum weighting 23 grams
- Van Gelder’s bat weighting 22 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 24 grams
- Savi’s pine vole weighting 20 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse weighting 25 grams
- Agile gracile opossum weighting 22 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sandstone false antechinus
Also reaching around 9.6 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Duthie’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Habbema dasyure gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine chipmunk gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)