How many baby Striped bandicoots are in a litter?
A Striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes longicauda) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Peroryctidae family (genus: Microperoryctes). An adult Striped bandicoot grows up to a size of 26.7 cm (0′ 11″).
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 striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes longicauda) is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. The Striped bandicoot is a host of the Acanthocephalan intestinal parasite Australiformis semoni.
Other animals of the family Peroryctidae
Striped bandicoot is a member of the Peroryctidae, as are these animals:
- Clara’s echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- David’s echymipera weighting only 817 grams
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mouse bandicoot raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Striped bandicoot
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat
- Pygmy treeshrew
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Greater musky fruit bat
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Muskox
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Pond bat
- Sharpe’s grysbok
Animals with the same weight as a Striped bandicoot
What other animals weight around 542 grams (1.19 lbs)?
- Ryukyu flying fox weighting 491 grams
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose weighting 550 grams
- Gray-backed sportive lemur weighting 506 grams
- Northern quoll weighting 477 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- Mariana fruit bat weighting 458 grams
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose weighting 485 grams
- Big-headed African mole-rat weighting 622 grams
- Malayan weasel weighting 569 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
Animals with the same size as a Striped bandicoot
Also reaching around 26.7 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Koslov’s pika gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern sportive lemur gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black giant squirrel gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- White-tailed antsangy gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- King rat (animal) gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose gets as big as 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- New Britain water rat gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Central American squirrel monkey gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)