How many baby Woylies are in a litter?
A Woylie (Bettongia penicillata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 20 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Bettongia). An adult Woylie grows up to a size of 33.1 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 woylie or brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata) is an extremely rare, small marsupial, belonging to the genus Bettongia, that is endemic to Australia. There are two subspecies: B. p. ogilbyi, and the now extinct B. p. penicillata.
Other animals of the family Potoroidae
Woylie is a member of the Potoroidae, as are these animals:
- Long-footed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Boodie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting only 499 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Woylie
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Ringed seal
- Pallid bat
- Japanese serow
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Coppery ringtail possum
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Philippine pygmy squirrel
- Jentink’s duiker
- Green bush squirrel
- Ring-tailed lemur
Animals that get as old as a Woylie
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6.5 years:
- Eastern quoll with 6.75 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 7.08 years
- Cuban solenodon with 6.5 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 6 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 7 years
- House mouse with 6 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- American pika with 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woylie
What other animals weight around 1.22 kg (2.69 lbs)?
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel usually reaching 1.16 kgs (2.56 lbs)
- Eastern quoll usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Black flying squirrel usually reaching 1.19 kgs (2.62 lbs)
- Ring-tailed cat usually reaching 1.02 kgs (2.25 lbs)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat usually reaching 1.16 kgs (2.56 lbs)
- Eastern woolly lemur usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Northern viscacha usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Marsh rabbit usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)