What is the maximal age a Western quoll reaches?
An adult Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) usually gets as old as 5 years.
Western quolls are around 17 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 10 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasyurus), a Western quoll caries out around 5 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″).
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 western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) is Western Australia’s largest endemic mammalian carnivore. One of the many marsupial mammals native to Australia, it is also known as the chuditch. The species is currently classed as near-threatened.
Animals of the same family as a Western quoll
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per pregnancy
- Julia Creek dunnart with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Brown antechinus becoming 3 years old
- Fawn antechinus becoming 2.25 years old
- Sarcophilus laniarius becoming 8.17 years old
- Dibbler becoming 3 years old
- Short-furred dasyure bringing the scale to 161 grams
- Dusky antechinus becoming 2 years old
- Tasmanian devil becoming 8.17 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Western quoll
With an average age of 5 years, Western quoll are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Botta’s pocket gopher usually reaching 4.5 years
- Little free-tailed bat usually reaching 5 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat usually reaching 4.75 years
- Coruro usually reaching 6 years
- Guyenne spiny rat usually reaching 4.75 years
- Hairy-tailed mole usually reaching 5 years
- Plains rat usually reaching 5.58 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose usually reaching 4.75 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk usually reaching 5.17 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale usually reaching 5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Western quoll
The same number of babies at once (5) are born by:
- American pygmy shrew
- Zarudny’s rock shrew
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse
- Alpine shrew
- Northern red-backed vole
- Reed vole
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Lesser fat-tailed jerboa
- Pilbara ningaui
Weighting as much as Western quoll
A fully grown Western quoll reaches around 1.12 kg (2.48 lbs). So do these animals:
- Woylie weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
- Spotted linsang weighting 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) on average
- Hoffmanns’s titi weighting 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) on average
- Utah prairie dog with 900 grams
- Collared titi weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
- Bengal slow loris weighting 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) on average
- Sable weighting 1.17 kilos (2.58 lbs) on average
- Plush-coated ringtail possum weighting 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) on average
- Muskrat with 992 grams
- Hershkovitz’s titi with 992 grams
Animals as big as a Western quoll
Those animals grow as big as a Western quoll:
- Indonesian mountain weasel with 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Indian grey mongoose with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Long-footed potoroo with 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat with 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped skunk with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Small-toothed sportive lemur with 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)