How many baby Tiger quolls are in a litter?
A Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 0.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus). An adult Tiger quoll grows up to a size of 42.7 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.
The tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), also known as the spotted-tail quoll, the spotted quoll, the spotted-tail dasyure or the tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus Dasyurus native to Australia. With males and females weighing around 3.5 and 1.8 kg, respectively, it is mainland Australia’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and the world’s longest extant carnivorous marsupial (the biggest is the Tasmanian devil). Two subspecies are recognised; the nominate is found in wet forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania, and a northern subspecies, D. m. gracilis, is found in a small area of northern Queensland and is endangered.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Tiger quoll is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian devil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fawn antechinus with 10 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed dunnart weighting only 25 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tiger quoll
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Siberian chipmunk
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Crowned shrew
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Wood lemming
- Yellow ground squirrel
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Zarudny’s rock shrew
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
Animals that get as old as a Tiger quoll
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with 4.25 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with 5 years
- Pyrenean desman with 5 years
- Hazel dormouse with 6 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with 4 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with 5.33 years
- Bunny rat with 5.5 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 4.25 years
- Otter civet with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tiger quoll
What other animals weight around 3.32 kg (7.32 lbs)?
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Cape fox usually reaching 2.92 kgs (6.44 lbs)
- Quokka usually reaching 3.03 kgs (6.68 lbs)
- Black agouti usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Dryas monkey usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin usually reaching 3.01 kgs (6.64 lbs)
- Gray fox usually reaching 3.83 kgs (8.44 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tiger quoll
Also reaching around 42.7 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Menzies’ echymipera gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Ground cuscus gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Golden bandicoot gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- David’s echymipera gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Olive colobus gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Robust cottontail gets as big as 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Arabian gazelle gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Broom hare gets as big as 50.2 cm (1′ 8″)