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How old does a Sarcophilus laniarius get? (age expectancy)

What is the maximal age a Sarcophilus laniarius reaches?

An adult Sarcophilus laniarius (Sarcophilus laniarius) usually gets as old as 8.17 years.

Sarcophilus laniariuss are around 20 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 108 grams (0.24 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Sarcophilus), a Sarcophilus laniarius caries out around 2 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″).

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.

Sarcophilus laniarius is an extinct species of large Tasmanian devil. Richard Owen originally called the specimen on which the genus was based Dasyurus laniarus.Pleistocene fossil deposits in limestone caves at Naracoorte, South Australia include specimens of S. laniarius, which were around 15% larger and 50% heavier than modern devils. Older specimens believed to be 50–70,000 years old were found in Darling Downs in Queensland and in Western Australia. It is not clear whether the modern devil evolved from S. laniarius, or whether they coexisted at the time. Richard Owen argued for the latter hypothesis in the 19th century based on fossils found in 1877 in New South Wales. It has been conjectured that S. laniarius and S. moornaensis, another now-extinct larger species, may have hunted and scavenged. It is known that there were several genera and species of thylacine millions of years ago, and that they ranged in size, the smaller being more reliant on foraging. As the devil and thylacine are similar, the extinction of the co-existing thylacine species has been cited as evidence for an analogous history for the devils. It has been speculated that the smaller size of S. laniarius and S. moornaensis allowed them to adapt to the changing conditions more effectively and survive longer than the corresponding thylacines.As the extinction of these two species came at a similar time to human habitation of Australia, hunting by humans, as well as land clearing, have been mooted as possible causes. Critics of this theory point out that as indigenous Australians only developed boomerangs and spears for hunting around 10,000 years ago, a critical fall in numbers due to systemic hunting is unlikely. They also point out that caves inhabited by Aborigines have a low proportion of bones and rock paintings of devils, and that this is an indication that it was not a large part of indigenous lifestyle. A scientific report in 1910 claimed that Aborigines preferred the meat of herbivores rather than carnivores. The other main theory for the extinction was due to the climate change brought on by the most recent Ice Age.

Animals of the same family as a Sarcophilus laniarius

Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):

Animals that reach the same age as Sarcophilus laniarius

With an average age of 8.17 years, Sarcophilus laniarius are in good companionship of the following animals:

Animals with the same number of babies Sarcophilus laniarius

The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:

Weighting as much as Sarcophilus laniarius

A fully grown Sarcophilus laniarius reaches around 8.35 kg (18.41 lbs). So do these animals:

Animals as big as a Sarcophilus laniarius

Those animals grow as big as a Sarcophilus laniarius: