Keeping Marsupials : Keeping and Breeding Marsupials in Captivity, Maintaining Injured and Orphaned Wildlife in Captivity, Animal Husbandry, Australian Marsupials, Australian Mammals, Marsupial Conservation

Summer 2004
Age Determination of Pouch Bound Macropods and other Marsupials

Possums & Gliders

Ring-tail Possum
Brush-tail Possum
Age (days)	Tail (mm)	Foot (mm)	Wgt (gms)
20	13	10	6
30	20	13	8
40	27	16	11
50	35	20	16
60	44	24	22
70	54	28	30
80	65	33	42
90	77	38	58
100E	91	44	79
120	121	56	151
130	137	62	209
140	155	69	282
150F	174	77	390
Age (days)	Head (mm)	Leg (mm)	Wgt (gms)
20	17	N/a	5
30	32	N/a	10
40	47	N/a	16
50	62	N/a	24
60	77	N/a	32
70	92	N/a	42
80	108	N/a	52
90E	123	N/a	64
110	153	N/a	88
20	168	N/a	100
130	183	N/a	114
140F	198	N/a	131

Sugar Glider
Age (days)	Head (mm)	Leg (mm)	Wgt (gms)
20	11	6	0.8
30	14	9	1.6
40	17	12	3.2
50	20	16	6.2
60E	23	20	12
70	26	24	24
80	29	29	34
90	32	35	44
100N	35		54
Squirrel Glider
Age (days)	Head (mm)	Leg (mm)	Wgt (gms)
20	12	6	1.1
30	15	8	2.2
40	16	11	4.2
50	21	15	8.1
60	24	18	16
70E	27		29
80	30		43