How many baby Western barred bandicoots are in a litter?
A Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 253 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Peramelidae family (genus: Perameles). An adult Western barred bandicoot grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), also known as the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot found in Australia.
Other animals of the family Peramelidae
Western barred bandicoot is a member of the Peramelidae, as are these animals:
- Lesser bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern brown bandicoot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern brown bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western barred bandicoot
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African clawless otter
- Common mole-rat
- Mexican woodrat
- Seminole bat
- Southern yellow bat
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Blanford’s rat
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- African golden cat
- Greenish yellow bat
Animals with the same weight as a Western barred bandicoot
What other animals weight around 230 grams (0.51 lbs)?
- Townsend’s ground squirrel weighting 207 grams
- Gray slender loris weighting 254 grams
- Particolored flying squirrel weighting 255 grams
- Deppe’s squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Douglas squirrel weighting 225 grams
- Nectomys rattus weighting 248 grams
- Cape mole-rat weighting 189 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat weighting 209 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco weighting 235 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting 256 grams
Animals with the same size as a Western barred bandicoot
Also reaching around 30 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Gilbert’s potoroo gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cape dune mole-rat gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bengal mongoose gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cotton-top tamarin gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Striped bandicoot gets as big as 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gray-backed sportive lemur gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Calabar angwantibo gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)