It is hard to guess what a Black dorcopsis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black dorcopsis (Dorcopsis atrata) on average weights 6.2 kg (13.67 lbs).
The Black dorcopsis is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dorcopsis). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 59.2 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Black dorcopsiss have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The black dorcopsis or black forest wallaby (Dorcopsis atrata) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to an island at the eastern end of New Guinea where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and hunting, its population is declining and the IUCN lists it as being “Critically endangered”.
Animals of the same family as a Black dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Eastern grey kangaroo bringing 33.51 kilos (73.88 lbs) to the scale
- Black-striped wallaby bringing 11.23 kilos (24.76 lbs) to the scale
- Northern nail-tail wallaby bringing 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs) to the scale
- White-striped dorcopsis bringing 5.5 kilos (12.13 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Black wallaroo bringing 17 kilos (37.48 lbs) to the scale
- Antilopine kangaroo bringing 27.28 kilos (60.14 lbs) to the scale
- Red-necked pademelon bringing 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs) to the scale
- Allied rock-wallaby bringing 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Black dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis atrata:
- De Brazza’s monkey with a weight of 5.32 kilos (11.73 lbs)
- Rhesus macaque with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Brown woolly monkey with a weight of 6.27 kilos (13.82 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Zanzibar red colobus with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Lar gibbon with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)
- Sun-tailed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Bush dog with a weight of 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black dorcopsis:
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile gibbon with a size of 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Arctic hare with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Barbary macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Mantled howler with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mantled guereza with a size of 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Arctic fox with a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Black dorcopsis:
- Black and rufous elephant shrew
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Boehm’s bush squirrel
- Speke’s pectinator
- Mindanao treeshrew
- Java mouse-deer
- Mountain nyala
- Baiji
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- Western red colobus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Black dorcopsis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Black dorcopsis:
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- European mole with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Pallid bat with an average maximal age of 9.08 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- North African hedgehog with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years