What is the maximal age a White-footed dunnart reaches?
An adult White-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) usually gets as old as 2.5 years.
White-footed dunnarts are around 17 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Sminthopsis), a White-footed dunnart caries out around 8 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 white-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) is a marsupial that occurs of Tasmania and mainland Australia. It occurs along the coast and in inner Gippsland and Alpine areas up to 400 metres near Narbethong. The length from snout to tail being 140–200 mm of which head to anus is 70–110 mm and tail 70–90 mm long and with a weight of 19–27 g.
Animals of the same family as a White-footed dunnart
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Dibbler becoming 3 years old
- Hairy-footed dunnart bringing the scale to 15 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni becoming 3 years old
- Narrow-nosed planigale becoming 3 years old
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed phascogale becoming 3 years old
- New Guinean planigale bringing the scale to 14 grams
- Kowari becoming 7 years old
- Ningbing false antechinus becoming 2 years old
- Kangaroo Island dunnart bringing the scale to 22 grams
Animals that reach the same age as White-footed dunnart
With an average age of 2.5 years, White-footed dunnart are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Lutrine opossum usually reaching 3 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart usually reaching 2 years
- Long-nosed echymipera usually reaching 2.83 years
- Ningbing false antechinus usually reaching 2 years
- Laxmann’s shrew usually reaching 2 years
- Slender-tailed dunnart usually reaching 2 years
- Dibbler usually reaching 3 years
- Red-tailed phascogale usually reaching 3 years
- Four-striped grass mouse usually reaching 2.83 years
- Swamp antechinus usually reaching 2 years
Animals with the same number of babies White-footed dunnart
The same number of babies at once (8) are born by:
- Grayish mouse opossum
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Chestnut dunnart
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster
- Yellow-footed antechinus
- European polecat
- Narrow-headed vole
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel
- African wild dog
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
Weighting as much as White-footed dunnart
A fully grown White-footed dunnart reaches around 24 grams (0.05 lbs). So do these animals:
- Cotton mouse with 27 grams
- Common noctule with 28 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with 21 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with 25 grams
- Altiplano grass mouse with 20 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat with 28 grams
- Balochistan gerbil with 25 grams
- Akodon budini with 26 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with 25 grams
- Northern gracile opossum with 23 grams