How many baby Sminthopsis lanigers are in a litter?
A Sminthopsis laniger (Sminthopsis laniger) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 11 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 Sminthopsis laniger 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.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Sminthopsis laniger is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Kultarr with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tiger quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew raching a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Eastern quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Common planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sminthopsis laniger
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Cutch rat
- Shaw’s jird
- Long-tailed vole
- Douglas squirrel
- Montane vole
- Arctic hare
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster
- Alpine shrew
- Eastern quoll
Animals that get as old as a Sminthopsis laniger
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.25 years:
- Black-footed tree-rat with 3.83 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with 3.17 years
- Southwestern myotis with 3.17 years
- Lutrine opossum with 3 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 3 years
- Common vole with 3 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with 3.25 years
- Dibatag with 3 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 3.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sminthopsis laniger
What other animals weight around 26 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Agile gracile opossum weighting 22 grams
- Dusky caenolestid weighting 29 grams
- Puno grass mouse weighting 30 grams
- Eastern pygmy possum weighting 27 grams
- Wood lemming weighting 30 grams
- Harlequin bat weighting 22 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat weighting 21 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat weighting 25 grams