How many baby Stein’s cuscuss are in a litter?
A Stein’s cuscus (Phalanger vestitus) 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 Stein’s cuscus grows up to a size of 42.4 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.
Stein’s cuscus (Phalanger vestitus) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Stein’s cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Mountain cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scaly-tailed possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern common cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woodlark cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Ornate cuscus weighting around 1.79 kilograms (3.95 lbs)
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting around 10 kilograms (22.05 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Stein’s cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Monjon
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Banded hare-wallaby
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Micronomus
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Atlantic bamboo rat
- Micronycteris nicefori
Animals with the same weight as a Stein’s cuscus
What other animals weight around 1.85 kg (4.08 lbs)?
- Platypus usually reaching 1.48 kgs (3.26 lbs)
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Red-bellied lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- Rothschild’s porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Snowshoe hare usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Alpine woolly rat usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Stein’s cuscus
Also reaching around 42.4 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Large-spotted civet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bunyoro rabbit gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black flying squirrel gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Marsh rabbit gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Gambian mongoose gets as big as 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel gets as big as 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit gets as big as 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)