It is hard to guess what a Southern brown bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) on average weights 825 grams (1.82 lbs).
The Southern brown bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Isoodon). They can live for up to 3.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.4 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Southern brown bandicoots can have babies 2 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 southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word ‘kwinda’).
Animals of the same family as a Southern brown bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern brown bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Isoodon obesulus:
- Spectacled flying fox bringing 759 grams to the scale
- Arctic ground squirrel bringing 747 grams to the scale
- Indian flying fox bringing 822 grams to the scale
- Bronze quoll bringing 896 grams to the scale
- Giant otter shrew bringing 685 grams to the scale
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 736 grams to the scale
- Grey-headed flying fox bringing 702 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur bringing 936 grams to the scale
- Cacomistle bringing 906 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern brown bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern brown bandicoot:
- Giant golden mole
- Silvery mole-rat
- White-tailed mongoose
- Peters’s musk shrew
- Saiga antelope
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- Highveld gerbil
- American black bear
- Southern Plains woodrat
- Cape short-eared gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern brown bandicoot
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern brown bandicoot:
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- White-footed mouse with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Greater cane rat with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years