What is the maximal age a Tiger quoll reaches?
An adult Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) usually gets as old as 5 years.
Tiger quolls are around 21 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 0.7 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus), a Tiger quoll caries out around 5 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 42.7 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 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
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Sandhill dunnart becoming 5 years old
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Parantechinus bilarni becoming 3 years old
- Sarcophilus laniarius becoming 8.17 years old
- Southern ningaui with 7 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale bringing the scale to 14 grams
- Little long-tailed dunnart becoming 3.17 years old
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Western quoll becoming 5 years old
- Kangaroo Island dunnart bringing the scale to 22 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Tiger quoll
With an average age of 5 years, Tiger quoll are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Stripe-faced dunnart usually reaching 4.83 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat usually reaching 5 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew usually reaching 4 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher usually reaching 4.5 years
- Great gerbil usually reaching 4 years
- Woodland jumping mouse usually reaching 4 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum usually reaching 6 years
- Hazel dormouse usually reaching 6 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse usually reaching 4.58 years
- Lesser mole-rat usually reaching 4.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Tiger quoll
The same number of babies at once (5) are born by:
- Kowari
- Pilbara ningaui
- Southern red-backed vole
- Fat-tailed false antechinus
- Gansu shrew
- Edible dormouse
- Ural field mouse
- Wongai ningaui
- Little Indian field mouse
- Mongolian gerbil
Weighting as much as Tiger quoll
A fully grown Tiger quoll reaches around 3.32 kg (7.32 lbs). So do these animals:
- Asian small-clawed otter weighting 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) on average
- Groundhog weighting 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) on average
- Crested mona monkey weighting 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) on average
- African brush-tailed porcupine weighting 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs) on average
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby weighting 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) on average
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) on average
- Arctic fox weighting 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) on average
- European hare weighting 3.82 kilos (8.42 lbs) on average
- Marsh mongoose weighting 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs) on average
- Golden palm civet weighting 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Tiger quoll
Those animals grow as big as a Tiger quoll:
- Banded palm civet with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-sided jackrabbit with 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Marsh mongoose with 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Beech marten with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Granada hare with 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Eastern common cuscus with 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Arabian gazelle with 50 cm (1′ 8″)