How many baby White-eared opossums are in a litter?
A White-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Didelphis). An adult White-eared opossum grows up to a size of 36 cm (1′ 3″).
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 white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) is an opossum species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is a terrestrial and, sometimes, arboreal animal, and a habitat generalist, living in a wide range of different habitats.For some time, this species was incorrectly known by the name D. azarae, correctly applied to the big-eared opossum. This led to azarae’s discontinuation as a species name. From 1993 until 2002, this species also included the Guianan white-eared opossum (D. imperfecta) and the Andean white-eared opossum (D. pernigra) as subspecies.It is the team mascot of Clube Náutico Capibaribe, a Brazilian football team from Recife, Pernambuco.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
White-eared opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum weighting only 11 grams
- Narrow-headed slender opossum weighting only 26 grams
- Northern gracile opossum with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly mouse opossum with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian gracile opossum weighting only 29 grams
- Chestnut-striped opossum weighting only 45 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum becoming 5 years old
- Handley’s slender opossum weighting only 30 grams
- Virginia opossum with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum weighting only 112 grams
Animals that share a litter size with White-eared opossum
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- California ground squirrel
- Perote ground squirrel
- European ground squirrel
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Maximowicz’s vole
- Arctic shrew
- Raccoon dog
- South African pouched mouse
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Big-eared opossum
Animals that get as old as a White-eared opossum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.67 years:
- American water shrew with 1.5 years
- Arctic shrew with 1.5 years
- Swamp antechinus with 2 years
- Ornate shrew with 1.42 years
- Tundra vole with 1.75 years
- Delany’s mouse with 2 years
- Western harvest mouse with 1.5 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with 1.75 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with 1.67 years
- Wongai ningaui with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a White-eared opossum
What other animals weight around 1.03 kg (2.27 lbs)?
- Big-eared opossum usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Brown titi weighting 851 grams
- Bahia porcupine weighting 999 grams
- White-eared titi weighting 898 grams
- Great flying fox usually reaching 1.02 kgs (2.25 lbs)
- Collared titi usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Western quoll usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Herbert River ringtail possum usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Spix’s night monkey weighting 873 grams
- Sunda flying lemur usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-eared opossum
Also reaching around 36 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Banded linsang gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Fennec fox gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern spotted skunk gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- David’s echymipera gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- San José brush rabbit gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bagobo rat gets as big as 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Yarkand hare gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Patagonian weasel gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped polecat gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)