What is the maximal age a Kultarr reaches?
An adult Kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) usually gets as old as 3.25 years.
Kultarrs are around 11 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 13.5 kg (29.76 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Antechinomys), a Kultarr caries out around 5 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.51 meter (5′ 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 kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) (also called the “jerboa-marsupial”) is a small insectivorous nocturnal marsupial inhabiting the arid interior of Australia. Preferred habitat includes stony deserts, shrubland, woodland, grassland and open plains. The kultarr has a range of adaptations to help cope with Australia’s harsh arid environment including torpor similar to hibernation that helps conserve energy. The species has declined across its former range since European settlement due to changes in land management practices and introduced predators.
Animals of the same family as a Kultarr
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Brush-tailed phascogale becoming 5 years old
- Stripe-faced dunnart becoming 4.83 years old
- Slender-tailed dunnart becoming 2 years old
- Yellow-footed antechinus becoming 3.5 years old
- Carpentarian dunnart bringing the scale to 25 grams
- Western quoll becoming 5 years old
- Ooldea dunnart becoming 3 years old
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern quoll becoming 6.75 years old
- Red-cheeked dunnart becoming 2 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Kultarr
With an average age of 3.25 years, Kultarr are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Sminthopsis laniger usually reaching 3.25 years
- Monito del monte usually reaching 3.17 years
- African pygmy mouse usually reaching 3.08 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat usually reaching 3.08 years
- Four-striped grass mouse usually reaching 2.83 years
- Southwestern water vole usually reaching 3.5 years
- Eastern woodrat usually reaching 3 years
- Red-tailed phascogale usually reaching 3 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew usually reaching 2.67 years
- Lesser bamboo rat usually reaching 3.67 years
Animals with the same number of babies Kultarr
The same number of babies at once (5) are born by:
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Olive grass mouse
- Meadow vole
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Tiger quoll
- Northern red-backed vole
- Kowari
- Edible dormouse
- Algerian mouse
Weighting as much as Kultarr
A fully grown Kultarr reaches around 25 grams (0.06 lbs). So do these animals:
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with 29 grams
- Hairy big-eyed bat with 23 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with 26 grams
- Striped field mouse with 21 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat with 26 grams
- Olive grass mouse with 24 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with 20 grams
- Southern grasshopper mouse with 21 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with 25 grams
- Eastern pygmy possum with 27 grams