It is hard to guess what a Northern brown bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) on average weights 1.51 kg (3.32 lbs).
The Northern brown bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Isoodon). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.4 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Northern brown bandicoots can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus), a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland.Northern brown bandicoot is known as Yok to the Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land and for those still living on their country is an important food. It is stuffed with hot coals and bush herbs then covered with paperbark and cooked in a ground oven.
Animals of the same family as a Northern brown bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Northern brown bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Isoodon macrourus:
- Jamaican coney with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Northern viscacha with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a weight of 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs)
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- European rabbit with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- Servaline genet with a weight of 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern brown bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern brown bandicoot:
- Eastern spotted skunk with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Haussa genet with a size of 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Ruddy mongoose with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Xerus erythropus with a size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Rio Tapajós saki with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Golden-backed uakari with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern brown bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Northern brown bandicoot:
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Western red-backed vole
- Temminck’s mouse
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Creeping vole
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Transandinomys bolivaris
- Amazonian marsh rat
- Nyika rock rat
- Southern big-eared mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern brown bandicoot
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern brown bandicoot:
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- White-footed mouse with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Monito del monte with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Kultarr with an average maximal age of 3.25 years