How many baby Yellow-sided opossums are in a litter?
A Yellow-sided opossum (Monodelphis dimidiata) usually gives birth to around 12 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 16.28 kg (35.88 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Monodelphis). An adult Yellow-sided opossum grows up to a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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-sided opossum (Monodelphis dimidiata) is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. They have grey or black fur on their dorsal side with yellowish fur on the lateral side that continues down to the feet. They are the most mysterious of all the Monodelphis that is found specifically in the Pampean region or Pampa of Argentina. It is suspected to be a once-in-a-lifetime breeder as seen in a three-year observational study of one population in the marshy grasslands of the Pampean region. Maintaining their native grasslands is important for them to keep a stable population.They show sexual dimorphism in overall size: adult males are typically 100-150 g whereas adult females are 30-70 g.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
Yellow-sided opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 4 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied slender opossum weighting only 34 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum weighting only 765 grams
- Narrow-headed slender opossum weighting only 26 grams
- Rufous mouse opossum with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gray slender opossum weighting only 54 grams
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum weighting only 11 grams
- Neblina slender opossum raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum raching a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-sided opossum
Those animals also give birth to 12 babies at once:
Animals that get as old as a Yellow-sided opossum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1 years:
- Myosorex varius with 1 years
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with 1 years
- Crowned shrew with 1.08 years
- Meadow vole with 0.92 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Wood lemming with 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-sided opossum
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Black-eared mouse weighting 39 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- White-striped free-tailed bat weighting 36 grams
- Cairo spiny mouse weighting 41 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse weighting 54 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat weighting 36 grams
- Western mastiff bat weighting 50 grams
- Olive montane mouse weighting 37 grams
- Ruwenzori thicket rat weighting 41 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-sided opossum
Also reaching around 9.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Yucatan deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panamint chipmunk gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern three-striped opossum gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Canyon mouse gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chacoan pygmy opossum gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)