What is the maximal age a Yellow-footed antechinus reaches?
An adult Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes) usually gets as old as 3.5 years.
Yellow-footed antechinuss are around 28 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Antechinus), a Yellow-footed antechinus caries out around 8 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.45 meter (4′ 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.
The yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), also known as the mardo, is a shrew-like marsupial found in Australia. One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior. The male yellow-footed antechinus engages in such frenzied mating that its immune system becomes compromised, resulting in stress related death before it is one year old.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-footed antechinus
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Western quoll becoming 5 years old
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Antechinus wilhelmina getting as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Little long-tailed dunnart becoming 3.17 years old
- Sarcophilus laniarius becoming 8.17 years old
- Sandhill dunnart becoming 5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Yellow-footed antechinus
With an average age of 3.5 years, Yellow-footed antechinus are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Parantechinus bilarni usually reaching 3 years
- Alpine pika usually reaching 3 years
- Yellow-necked mouse usually reaching 4 years
- Vinogradov’s jird usually reaching 3.33 years
- Kultarr usually reaching 3.25 years
- Giant golden mole usually reaching 4 years
- Red-tailed phascogale usually reaching 3 years
- Japanese mountain mole usually reaching 3 years
- Talas tuco-tuco usually reaching 3 years
- North African elephant shrew usually reaching 3 years
Animals with the same number of babies Yellow-footed antechinus
The same number of babies at once (8) are born by:
- Tundra shrew
- Golden hamster
- Taiga vole
- Grayish mouse opossum
- Dusky antechinus
- Townsend’s ground squirrel
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Cinnamon antechinus
- Brown rat
- Slender-tailed dunnart
Weighting as much as Yellow-footed antechinus
A fully grown Yellow-footed antechinus reaches around 44 grams (0.1 lbs). So do these animals:
- Long-tailed vole with 44 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse with 41 grams
- Montane vole with 42 grams
- Emin’s gerbil with 52 grams
- Alpine chipmunk with 36 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with 45 grams
- Guajira mouse opossum with 46 grams
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with 50 grams
- Greater noctule bat with 45 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with 41 grams