It is hard to guess what a New Guinean quoll weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Guinean quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus) on average weights 611 grams (1.35 lbs).
The New Guinean quoll is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasyurus). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.9 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, New Guinean 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 New Guinean quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus), also known as the New Guinea quoll or New Guinea native cat, is a carnivorous marsupial mammal native to New Guinea. It is the second-largest surviving marsupial carnivore of New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a New Guinean quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Little long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 14 grams
- Bronze quoll with a weight of 896 grams
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gilbert’s dunnart with a weight of 19 grams
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a weight of 124 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 52 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
Animals with the same weight as a New Guinean quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus albopunctatus:
- Banded linsang bringing 684 grams to the scale
- Bulmer’s fruit bat bringing 621 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Guinea pig bringing 728 grams to the scale
- Big-headed African mole-rat bringing 622 grams to the scale
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Giant white-tailed rat bringing 644 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed chinchilla bringing 500 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat bringing 489 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Guinean quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Guinean quoll:
- Sunda slow loris with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Guyenne spiny rat with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Solomons flying fox with a size of 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Eastern gray squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a New Guinean quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a New Guinean quoll:
- Eligmodontia typus
- Perote ground squirrel
- Mindoro black rat
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Seven-banded armadillo
- Flat-haired mouse
- Woolly mouse opossum
- Steppe mouse
- North American brown lemming
- Julia Creek dunnart
Animals with the same life expectancy as a New Guinean quoll
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a New Guinean quoll:
- Winter white dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Southern bog lemming with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years