How many baby Sugar gliders are in a litter?
A Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 16 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Petauridae family (genus: Petaurus). An adult Sugar glider grows up to a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass. The common name refers to its preference for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel. They have very similar habits and appearance to the flying squirrel, despite not being closely related—an example of convergent evolution. The scientific name, Petaurus breviceps, translates from Latin as “short-headed rope-dancer”, a reference to their canopy acrobatics.The sugar glider is characterised by its gliding membrane, known as the patagium, which extends from its forelegs to its hindlegs, one on each side of its body. Gliding serves as an efficient means of reaching food and evading predators. The animal is covered in soft, pale grey to light brown fur which is countershaded, being lighter in colour on its underside.The sugar glider is endemic to parts of mainland Australia, New Guinea and certain Indonesian islands; and it was introduced to Tasmania, probably in the 1830s. It is a popular exotic pet but is prohibited in some regions, including parts of Australia and the United States.
Other animals of the family Petauridae
Sugar glider is a member of the Petauridae, as are these animals:
- Leadbeater’s possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Squirrel glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Great-tailed triok raching a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mahogany glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Biak glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-fingered triok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tate’s triok weighting only 252 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sugar glider
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Red-bellied lemur
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Magdalena rat
- Big brown bat
- Chacma baboon
- Water chevrotain
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Zebra duiker
- Forest giant squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Sugar glider
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Common treeshrew with 12.42 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- La Plata dolphin with 16 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with 11.33 years
- White-tailed mongoose with 12 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sugar glider
What other animals weight around 120 grams (0.26 lbs)?
- Miller’s mastiff bat weighting 98 grams
- Voalavoanala weighting 97 grams
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat weighting 144 grams
- Brooke’s squirrel weighting 114 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 121 grams
- White-bellied rat weighting 100 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 100 grams
- Woolly giant rat weighting 116 grams
- Northern flying squirrel weighting 138 grams
- Bush rat weighting 124 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sugar glider
Also reaching around 15.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Somali hedgehog gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brown mouse lemur gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky slender opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pocock’s highland rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)