What is the maximal age a Greater glider reaches?
An adult Greater glider (Petauroides volans) usually gets as old as 15 years.
When born, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Pseudocheiridae family (genus: Petauroides), a Greater glider caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″).
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 greater glider (Petauroides volans) is a large gliding marsupial found in Australia. It is not closely related to the Petaurus group of gliding marsupials but instead to the lemur-like ringtail possum (Hemibelideus lemuroides), with which it shares the subfamily Hemibelideinae.The greater glider is nocturnal and is a solitary herbivore feeding almost exclusively on Eucalyptus leaves and buds. Like its relative the lemur-like ringtail, the greater glider is found in two forms: a sooty brown form, or a grey-to-white form.The greater glider is found in eucalypt forest from Mossman, Queensland, to Daylesford, Victoria.
Animals of the same family as a Greater glider
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Pseudocheiridae):
- Herbert River ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common ringtail possum becoming 8 years old
- Cinereus ringtail possum with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing the scale to 256 grams
- Herbert River ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing the scale to 255 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing the scale to 458 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Greater glider
With an average age of 15 years, Greater glider are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Australian sea lion usually reaching 16 years
- Black bearded saki usually reaching 18 years
- Microcebus coquereli usually reaching 15.25 years
- Salt’s dik-dik usually reaching 14 years
- Blue duiker usually reaching 12 years
- Indian muntjac usually reaching 17.58 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Brown hyena usually reaching 17 years
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 14 years
- European pine marten usually reaching 17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Greater glider
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Aders’s duiker
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Malagasy serotine
- Mountain cuscus
- Ocelot
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
- Rio Mayo titi
- Steenbok
- Serotine bat
Weighting as much as Greater glider
A fully grown Greater glider reaches around 1.26 kg (2.77 lbs). So do these animals:
- Eastern quoll weighting 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) on average
- Potto weighting 1.08 kilos (2.38 lbs) on average
- Thomas’s flying squirrel weighting 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) on average
- Large flying fox weighting 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) on average
- Atlantic titi weighting 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) on average
- Northern bettong weighting 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) on average
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) on average
- Rusty-spotted cat weighting 1.42 kilos (3.13 lbs) on average
- Common opossum weighting 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) on average
- Great flying fox weighting 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) on average