How big does a Northern quoll get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) reaches an average size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 2.83 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 477 grams (1.05 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Northern quolls have 6 babies about 1 times per year. The Northern quoll (genus: Dasyurus) is a member of the family Dasyuridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), also known as the northern native cat, the North Australian native cat, the satanellus or the njanmak (in the indigenous Mayali language, djabo” in Kunwinjku in is a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia. Kunwinjku people of Western Arnhem Land regard djabo as “good tucker”. The hair is singed, the gut is removed (but not the heart or liver) and the cavity packed with bush herbs. It is roasted on hot rocks in a hole.
Animals of the same family as a Northern quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per litter
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per litter
- Three-striped dasyure with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per litter
- White-footed dunnart with 8 babies per litter
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Northern quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern quoll:
- Long-eared hedgehog with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Philippine forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-shouldered opossum with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hammer-headed bat with a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Northern quoll:
- Afghan pika
- Eligmodontia typus
- Bronze quoll
- Common shrew
- European ground squirrel
- Crest-tailed mulgara
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Bornean bearded pig
- Long-tailed weasel
- Big-eared opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern quoll
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern quoll:
- White-footed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus hallucatus:
- Collie’s squirrel bringing 498 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Black-headed marmoset bringing 401 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed squirrel bringing 427 grams to the scale
- Mountain giant Sunda rat bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat bringing 445 grams to the scale