How big does a Tiger quoll get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) reaches an average size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 3.32 kg (7.32 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Tiger quolls have 5 babies about 1 times per year. The Tiger 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 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
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per litter
- Tasmanian devil with a size of 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 7 babies per litter
- Parantechinus bilarni with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per litter
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per litter
- Ningbing false antechinus with 4 babies per litter
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 8 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Tiger quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tiger quoll:
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Campbell’s mona monkey with a size of 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Alpine woolly rat with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Rock hyrax with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Groundhog with a size of 41.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey with a size of 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Snowshoe hare with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brazilian porcupine with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tiger quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Tiger quoll:
- Grey red-backed vole
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Slender shrew
- Variegated squirrel
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Daurian pika
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Northern grass mouse
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tiger quoll
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tiger quoll:
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Sundevall’s jird with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Coruro with an average maximal age of 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tiger quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus maculatus:
- Egyptian mongoose with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 3.37 kilos (7.43 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- Short-eared possum with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax with a weight of 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs)
- Broom hare with a weight of 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti with a weight of 2.9 kilos (6.39 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat with a weight of 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)