It is hard to guess what a Eastern quoll weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) on average weights 1.12 kg (2.46 lbs).
The Eastern quoll is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasyurus). They can live for up to 6.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33.3 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Eastern quolls can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), formerly known as the eastern native cat, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are widespread and even locally common in Tasmania. They have been considered extinct on the mainland since the 1960s, however have been reintroduced back into fenced sanctuaries in 2016, and more recently into the wild in March 2018. It is one of six extant species of quolls.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Short-furred dasyure with a weight of 161 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Kultarr with a weight of 25 grams
- Gilbert’s dunnart with a weight of 19 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus viverrinus:
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
- Northern olingo with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Red acouchi with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Hershkovitz’s titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Menzies’ echymipera with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Desert rat-kangaroo bringing 929 grams to the scale
- Spotted linsang with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Screaming hairy armadillo bringing 930 grams to the scale
- Herbert River ringtail possum with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eastern quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern quoll:
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a size of 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Ring-tailed cat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Xerus erythropus with a size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Chinese ferret-badger with a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-eared opossum with a size of 36 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern woolly lemur with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Coppery titi with a size of 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black lemur with a size of 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Eastern quoll:
- Sminthopsis laniger
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Speckled ground squirrel
- Tiger quoll
- Sandhill dunnart
- Southern red-backed vole
- Townsend’s vole
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Striped field mouse
- Wood lemming
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern quoll
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern quoll:
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- North African hedgehog with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Lesser grison with an average maximal age of 7.25 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Canyon bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Xerus erythropus with an average maximal age of 6 years