How many baby Slender-tailed dunnarts are in a litter?
A Slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina) usually gives birth to around 8 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 16 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Slender-tailed dunnart grows up to a size of 9.5 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 slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina), also known as the common dunnart in Australia, is a dasyurid marsupial . It has an average body length of 7 to 12 centimeters (2.8–4.7 in) with a tail length of 5.5 to 13 centimetres (2.2–5.1 in). It weighs 25–40.8 grams for males and 16.5–25.4 grams for females.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Slender-tailed dunnart is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Ningbing false antechinus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
- Dibbler with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Wongai ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Slender-tailed dunnart
Those animals also give birth to 8 babies at once:
- African wild dog
- Golden hamster
- Grayish mouse opossum
- Cinnamon antechinus
- Dusky antechinus
- Townsend’s ground squirrel
- European polecat
- Cheesman’s gerbil
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster
Animals that get as old as a Slender-tailed dunnart
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- Pilbara ningaui with 2 years
- Laxmann’s shrew with 2 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 2 years
- Hoary bat with 2.08 years
- Delany’s mouse with 2 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with 2 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Wongai ningaui with 2 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 1.75 years
- Long-tailed giant rat with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Slender-tailed dunnart
What other animals weight around 17 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Little long-tailed dunnart weighting 14 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat weighting 15 grams
- Steppe field mouse weighting 20 grams
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 15 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 14 grams
- Delicate slender opossum weighting 15 grams
- Himalayan shrew weighting 14 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting 17 grams
- Oldfield mouse weighting 14 grams
- Halcyon horseshoe bat weighting 18 grams