It is hard to guess what a Eastern barred bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) on average weights 903 grams (1.99 lbs).
The Eastern barred bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Perameles). They can live for up to 5.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 32.3 cm (1′ 1″). On average, Eastern barred bandicoots can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) is a small, rabbit-sized marsupial native to Tasmania and Victoria, southeastern Australia. It is one of three extant bandicoot species in the genus Perameles.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern barred bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern barred bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perameles gunnii:
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed sportive lemur bringing 763 grams to the scale
- Yellow ground squirrel bringing 779 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Conover’s tuco-tuco bringing 860 grams to the scale
- Red acouchi bringing 949 grams to the scale
- Black-capped squirrel monkey bringing 802 grams to the scale
- New England cottontail bringing 814 grams to the scale
- Javan mongoose bringing 758 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern barred bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern barred bandicoot:
- Meerkat with a size of 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Peters’s squirrel with a size of 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red acouchi with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Arctic ground squirrel with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common degu with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-tailed prairie dog with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- King rat (animal) with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Small dorcopsis with a size of 38.7 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern barred bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Eastern barred bandicoot:
- Alston’s brown mouse
- California kangaroo rat
- Striped hyena
- Mayor’s mouse
- White-footed vole
- Long-tailed mouse
- Canada lynx
- Kimberley rock rat
- Chiriqui harvest mouse
- Golden palm civet
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern barred bandicoot
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern barred bandicoot:
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years