How many baby Telefomin cuscuss are in a litter?
A Telefomin cuscus (Phalanger matanim) 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 Telefomin cuscus grows up to a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 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.
The Telefomin cuscus (Phalanger matanim) is a probably extinct possum found on New Guinea.It is named after the Telefol ethnic group, who knew the animal long before it was discovered scientifically by the Australian zoologist Tim Flannery. It lives in the oak forests along the Nong River in the middle of Papua New Guinea, at altitudes between 1500 and 2000 m. After the drought and wildfires of 1997, these forests were destroyed, which most likely resulted in the species extinction.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Telefomin cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Northern common cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Stein’s cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Admiralty Island cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silky cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern common cuscus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Telefomin cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Checkered elephant shrew
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Four-horned antelope
- Blue whale
- Southern reedbuck
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Pudú
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
Animals with the same weight as a Telefomin cuscus
What other animals weight around 1.44 kg (3.18 lbs)?
- Jamaican coney usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)
- Banded mongoose usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus usually reaching 1.63 kgs (3.59 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted cat usually reaching 1.42 kgs (3.13 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.72 kgs (3.79 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Telefomin cuscus
Also reaching around 39.9 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Northern viscacha gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Jameson’s red rock hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Raccoon dog gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Robust cottontail gets as big as 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Potto gets as big as 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Rusty-spotted cat gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)