How many baby Yellow-bellied gliders are in a litter?
A Yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 2.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Petauridae family (genus: Petaurus). An adult Yellow-bellied glider grows up to a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″).
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 yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis), also known as the fluffy glider, is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria.
Other animals of the family Petauridae
Yellow-bellied glider is a member of the Petauridae, as are these animals:
- Tate’s triok weighting only 252 grams
- Northern glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mahogany glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Squirrel glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sugar glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Leadbeater’s possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Biak glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Great-tailed triok raching a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-fingered triok with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-bellied glider
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Venezuelan red howler
- Père David’s deer
- Brown’s pademelon
- Java mouse-deer
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Northern brushtail possum
- Southern marsupial mole
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Highland brush mouse
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
Animals that get as old as a Yellow-bellied glider
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16 years:
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Brown greater galago with 18.75 years
- Equatorial saki with 14.83 years
- Northern flying squirrel with 13 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 15 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- Six-banded armadillo with 18.75 years
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-bellied glider
What other animals weight around 568 grams (1.25 lbs)?
- Allen’s squirrel weighting 465 grams
- Spermophilus relictus weighting 600 grams
- Seychelles fruit bat weighting 491 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 642 grams
- Northern quoll weighting 477 grams
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting 499 grams
- Columbian ground squirrel weighting 471 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting 479 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- Baja California rock squirrel weighting 551 grams