How many baby Scaly-tailed possums are in a litter?
A Scaly-tailed possum (Wyulda squamicaudata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 28 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Wyulda). An adult Scaly-tailed possum grows up to a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 3″).
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 scaly-tailed possum – Wyulda squamicaudata – is found in northwestern Australia, where it is restricted to the Kimberley. They are light grey over most of the body and have relatively short ears and muzzle. The mostly hairless tail is able to curl around the branches of trees as the possum forages for food, its grasp is aided by rasp-ilke scales and is strong enough to hold its own weight. The species favours complex rocky terrain with dense thickets of vines and the fruiting trees that provide much of their diet.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Scaly-tailed possum is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern common cuscus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Stein’s cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Admiralty Island cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silky cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Scaly-tailed possum
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Northern bat
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Northern fur seal
- Mantled guereza
- Guam flying fox
Animals that get as old as a Scaly-tailed possum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- Bunny rat with 5.5 years
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- Arctic hare with 7 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 7.08 years
- Western quoll with 5 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- White-bellied duiker with 5.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Scaly-tailed possum
What other animals weight around 1.81 kg (3.98 lbs)?
- Angolan genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- White-faced saki usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Chinese hare usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Subalpine woolly rat usually reaching 1.99 kgs (4.39 lbs)
- Northern brown bandicoot usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Red-bellied lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- Little Swan Island hutia usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Cape hare usually reaching 2.05 kgs (4.52 lbs)