How many baby Woodlark cuscuss are in a litter?
A Woodlark cuscus (Phalanger lullulae) 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 Woodlark cuscus grows up to a size of 37.2 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 Woodlark cuscus (Phalanger lullulae) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae endemic to Papua New Guinea, specifically on Madau and Woodlark Island, a part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It happens to be the largest mammal living on Woodlark Island but it is also found on the neighboring island of Alcester, 70 kilometers south of Woodlark Island.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Woodlark cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Common brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern common cuscus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern common cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Stein’s cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ornate cuscus weighting around 1.79 kilograms (3.95 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Scaly-tailed possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Admiralty Island cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woodlark cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Southern forest bat
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Red-faced spider monkey
- Suni
- Greater glider
- Blue duiker
- Banana pipistrelle
- Hartebeest
Animals with the same weight as a Woodlark cuscus
What other animals weight around 1.63 kg (3.6 lbs)?
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted genet usually reaching 1.95 kgs (4.3 lbs)
- Reclusive ringtail possum usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Chacoan mara usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 1.88 kgs (4.14 lbs)
- Island fox usually reaching 1.92 kgs (4.23 lbs)
- Eastern common cuscus usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- African savanna hare usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Woodlark cuscus
Also reaching around 37.2 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Black flying squirrel gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black-footed tree-rat gets as big as 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cuban solenodon gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- American hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern viscacha gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- New England cottontail gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- European rabbit gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Central African oyan gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Jamaican coney gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)