How many baby Western quolls are in a litter?
A Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) 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 17 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus). An adult Western quoll grows up to a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″).
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 quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) is Western Australia’s largest endemic mammalian carnivore. One of the many marsupial mammals native to Australia, it is also known as the chuditch. The species is currently classed as near-threatened.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Western quoll is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kowari with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Common planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Three-striped dasyure weighting only 223 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western quoll
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- European rabbit
- Striped skunk
- Black rat
- Meadow vole
- Daurian ground squirrel
- Euphrates jerboa
- Southern red-backed vole
- Lorrain dormouse
- Alpine shrew
- House mouse
Animals that get as old as a Western quoll
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Northern birch mouse with 4 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Black rat with 4.17 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 4.25 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with 5.33 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with 5.58 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
- Tiger quoll with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Western quoll
What other animals weight around 1.12 kg (2.48 lbs)?
- Large flying fox usually reaching 1.03 kgs (2.27 lbs)
- Red acouchi weighting 949 grams
- Sunda flying lemur usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Big-eared opossum usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- European polecat weighting 980 grams
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel usually reaching 1.16 kgs (2.56 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western quoll
Also reaching around 34.9 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Common opossum gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Palawan stink badger gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Spotted linsang gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Narrow-striped mongoose gets as big as 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Short-tailed mongoose gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)