How many baby Woolley’s false antechinuss are in a litter?
A Woolley’s false antechinus (Pseudantechinus woolleyae) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Pseudantechinus). An adult Woolley’s false antechinus grows up to a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 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.
Woolley’s false antechinus (Pseudantechinus woolleyae), also known as Woolley’s pseudantechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial belonging to the family Dasyuridae. It is found in the Australian state of Western Australia, primarily in the Pilbara, Ashburton and Murchison regions.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Woolley’s false antechinus is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Red-tailed phascogale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled dasyure weighting only 212 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woolley’s false antechinus
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Hispid cotton rat
- Alpine shrew
- Edible dormouse
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- Euphrates jerboa
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Garden dormouse
Animals that get as old as a Woolley’s false antechinus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Euphrates jerboa with 4.17 years
- Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 3.5 years
- Black rat with 4.17 years
- Gray tree rat with 3.75 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with 3.83 years
- Pallas’s pika with 4 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woolley’s false antechinus
What other animals weight around 43 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat weighting 47 grams
- Andean big-eared mouse weighting 38 grams
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse weighting 35 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat weighting 43 grams
- Hylaeamys laticeps weighting 49 grams
- Caatinga vesper mouse weighting 39 grams
- Brazilian slender opossum weighting 38 grams
- Elegant water shrew weighting 38 grams
- Southern vole weighting 35 grams
- Dolorous grass mouse weighting 50 grams