It is hard to guess what a Desert bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) on average weights 499 grams (1.1 lbs).
The Desert bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Perameles). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Desert bandicoots have 2 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 desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) is an extinct bandicoot of the arid country in the centre of Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Desert bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perameles eremiana:
- Epixerus bringing 559 grams to the scale
- Mariana fruit bat bringing 458 grams to the scale
- European mink bringing 567 grams to the scale
- Maués marmoset bringing 443 grams to the scale
- Moustached tamarin bringing 557 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel bringing 500 grams to the scale
- Southern tuco-tuco bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Golden lion tamarin bringing 593 grams to the scale
- Gilliard’s flying fox bringing 406 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Desert bandicoot: