It is hard to guess what a Tiger quoll weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) on average weights 3.32 kg (7.32 lbs).
The Tiger quoll is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasyurus). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 42.7 cm (1′ 5″). On average, Tiger 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 tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), also known as the spotted-tail quoll, the spotted quoll, the spotted-tail dasyure or the tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus Dasyurus native to Australia. With males and females weighing around 3.5 and 1.8 kg, respectively, it is mainland Australia’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and the world’s longest extant carnivorous marsupial (the biggest is the Tasmanian devil). Two subspecies are recognised; the nominate is found in wet forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania, and a northern subspecies, D. m. gracilis, is found in a small area of northern Queensland and is endangered.
Animals of the same family as a Tiger quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Little red kaluta with a weight of 32 grams
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tiger quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus maculatus:
- Southern tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- Bay cat with a weight of 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a weight of 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Margay with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Crested mona monkey with a weight of 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose with a weight of 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tiger quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tiger quoll:
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Yunnan hare with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Kodkod with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Olive colobus with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Dice’s cottontail with a size of 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Marsh mongoose with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tiger quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Tiger quoll:
- Piebald shrew
- Kultarr
- Pygmy rabbit
- Southern red-backed vole
- Northern grass mouse
- Eastern spotted skunk
- Four-striped grass mouse
- Garden dormouse
- Cape mole-rat
- Social vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tiger quoll
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tiger quoll:
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Steppe pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years