Summer 2004
Age Determination of Pouch Bound Macropods and other Marsupials

Possums & Gliders
 

 

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

Ring-tail Possum

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

 

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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

90

33

 

57

100

36

 

71

110N

39

 

85

E: Emerging from pouch  F: Fully out of pouch  N: Emerging from the nest

Bennett's Wallaby
Juvenile NT Brushtail Possum
Swamp Wallaby
Golden Brushtail Possum
Red Kangaroos
Yellow-footed Rock-wallabies
Baby Squirrel Glider
Sugar Glider
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