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Females can ovulate three times in as many weeks during the mating season, and 80% of two-year-old females are seen to be pregnant during the annual mating season. Females average four breeding …

Jul 31, 2025 · Tasmanian Devils mature in their second year and usually mate in March. After a gestation period of 21 days the females give birth to between 20 and 30 young called 'Joeys'.

Pregnant Female Tasmanian devils carry about 20-30 babies for 21 days of gestation. The babies are raisin sized shaped and are born deaf and blind but manage to climb up into their mother's pouch.

Males compete for access to breeding females. Females are only temporarily subdued by a male for mating, there is no longer term association of males and females. Tasmanian devils are monestrous. …

Dec 29, 2025 · After a gestation period of 21 days, the female Tasmanian devil gives birth to 20 to 30 babies, each weighing between 0.18 to 0.24 grams and are the size of a grain of rice.

Genetic and morphological analysis indicates that Tasmanian devils are most closely related to quolls. It has been suggested that their absence in many previously occupied areas is the result of …

May 21, 2025 · In Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), following the emergence of a transmissible cancer that caused steep population declines, females started to breed precocially (i.e. at age 1 …

Apr 1, 2012 · The goal of the current study was to increase our understanding of the reproductive biology of the female Tasmanian devil to enhance captive management and breeding strategies and …

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