How many baby Silky cuscuss are in a litter?
A Silky cuscus (Phalanger sericeus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 691 grams (1.52 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Phalanger). An adult Silky cuscus grows up to a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 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 silky cuscus (Phalanger sericeus) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Silky cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woodlark cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Telefomin cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting around 10 kilograms (22.05 lbs)
- Admiralty Island cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern common 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)
- Black-spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Silky cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Springbok
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- Boodie
- Tana River mangabey
- Ear-spot squirrel
- Pig-tailed langur
- Big free-tailed bat
- Servaline genet
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Hoolock gibbon
Animals with the same weight as a Silky cuscus
What other animals weight around 2 kg (4.41 lbs)?
- Banded hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.94 kgs (4.28 lbs)
- Central American agouti usually reaching 2.31 kgs (5.09 lbs)
- Mountain cuscus usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Beech marten usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Granada hare usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Alpine woolly rat usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Burmese hare usually reaching 2.27 kgs (5 lbs)
- Angolan genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Striped skunk usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 1.88 kgs (4.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Silky cuscus
Also reaching around 41.2 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Snowshoe hare gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Golden-backed uakari gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Telefomin cuscus gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Short-beaked echidna gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Stripe-necked mongoose gets as big as 47.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Palawan stink badger gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Striped polecat gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Stein’s cuscus gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Diana monkey gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)