How many baby Striped possums are in a litter?
A Striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 22 kg (48.49 lbs) and measure 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Petauridae family (genus: Dactylopsila). An adult Striped possum grows up to a size of 25.5 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 possum or common striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) is a member of the marsupial family Petauridae. The species is black with three white stripes running head to tail, and its head has white stripes that form a ‘Y’ shape. It is closely related to the sugar glider, and is similar in appearance.
Other animals of the family Petauridae
Striped possum is a member of the Petauridae, as are these animals:
- Long-fingered triok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Squirrel glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Great-tailed triok raching a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Biak glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Leadbeater’s possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mahogany glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tate’s triok weighting only 252 grams
- Sugar glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Striped possum
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dusky pademelon
- Whiskered bat
- Gray brocket
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Killer whale
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Spectral bat
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Northern greater galago
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
Animals that get as old as a Striped possum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.58 years:
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Bush dog with 10.33 years
- White-throated woodrat with 7.67 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 8.75 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Fishing cat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Striped possum
What other animals weight around 413 grams (0.91 lbs)?
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Pied tamarin weighting 465 grams
- Geoffroy’s tamarin weighting 493 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur weighting 409 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat weighting 339 grams
- White-winged flying fox weighting 343 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting 403 grams
- Namaqua dune mole-rat weighting 389 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum weighting 351 grams
Animals with the same size as a Striped possum
Also reaching around 25.5 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Northern glider gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Colombian weasel gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern sportive lemur gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lyle’s flying fox gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Golden bamboo lemur gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)