It is hard to guess what a Bronze quoll weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) on average weights 896 grams (1.98 lbs).
The Bronze quoll is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasyurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.6 cm (1′ 3″). Usually, Bronze quolls have 6 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) is a species of quoll found only in the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands of New Guinea and West Papua. It was discovered in the early 1970s when five specimens were collected, but only described in 1987 when Dr. Stephen Van Dyck of the Queensland Museum examined them and recognised their distinctness. As of February 2013 there are twelve public museum specimens, 8 from traps and 4 from local hunters. It is the largest surviving marsupial carnivore of New Guinea.Very little is known of it; it was previously thought to be an outlying population of the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii).
Animals of the same family as a Bronze quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Carpentarian dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- Pilbara ningaui with a weight of 6 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bronze quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus spartacus:
- Great flying fox with a weight of 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs)
- Mimic tree rat bringing 975 grams to the scale
- Eastern barred bandicoot bringing 903 grams to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose bringing 791 grams to the scale
- Eastern white-eared giant rat bringing 867 grams to the scale
- Sunda slow loris bringing 940 grams to the scale
- Japanese marten with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Raffray’s bandicoot bringing 905 grams to the scale
- Southern brown bandicoot bringing 825 grams to the scale
- American mink bringing 904 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bronze quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bronze quoll:
- Ring-tailed lemur with a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brush rabbit with a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Snowshoe hare with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Hispaniolan hutia with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Central African oyan with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bronze quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Bronze quoll: