What is the maximal age a Common planigale reaches?
An adult Common planigale (Planigale maculata) usually gets as old as 4 years.
Common planigales are around 19 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Planigale), a Common planigale caries out around 7 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The common planigale (Planigale maculata), also known as the pygmy planigale or the coastal planigale, is one of many small marsupial carnivores known as “marsupial mice” found in Australia. There they fill a similar niche to the insectivores of other parts of the world.
Animals of the same family as a Common planigale
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Sarcophilus laniarius becoming 8.17 years old
- Wongai ningaui becoming 2 years old
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Fawn antechinus becoming 2.25 years old
- Dibbler becoming 3 years old
- Little red kaluta becoming 3 years old
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing the scale to 19 grams
- Tasmanian devil becoming 8.17 years old
- Sminthopsis laniger becoming 3.25 years old
- Tiger quoll becoming 5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Common planigale
With an average age of 4 years, Common planigale are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Small Japanese mole usually reaching 3.5 years
- Steppe pika usually reaching 4 years
- Black myotis usually reaching 3.5 years
- Great gerbil usually reaching 4 years
- Pallas’s pika usually reaching 4 years
- Bush rat usually reaching 3.42 years
- Vinogradov’s jird usually reaching 3.33 years
- Woodland thicket rat usually reaching 4.33 years
- Aders’s duiker usually reaching 4 years
- Northern pygmy mouse usually reaching 3.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common planigale
The same number of babies at once (7) are born by:
- Sakhalin vole
- Stripe-faced dunnart
- Flat-skulled shrew
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Lesser bandicoot rat
- European hamster
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Swamp antechinus
- Arctic fox
Weighting as much as Common planigale
A fully grown Common planigale reaches around 12 grams (0.03 lbs). So do these animals:
- Brants’s climbing mouse with 10 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with 11 grams
- Golden bat with 12 grams
- Jamaican flower bat with 14 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat with 12 grams
- Northern bat with 10 grams
- Pouched gerbil with 10 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with 12 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis with 10 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with 12 grams