It is hard to guess what a Northern nail-tail wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera) on average weights 6.5 kg (14.32 lbs).
The Northern nail-tail wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Onychogalea). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 52.5 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Northern nail-tail wallabys 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 northern or sandy nail-tail wallaby refers to Onychogalea unguifera, a species of macropod found across northern Australia on arid and sparsely wooded plains.The largest species of the genus Onychogalea, it is a solitary and nocturnal herbivorous browser that selects its food from a wide variety of grasses and succulent plant material. Distinguished by a slender and long-limbed form that resembles the typical and well known kangaroos, although their standing height is shorter, around half of one metre, and their weight is less than nine kilograms. As with some medium to large kangaroo species, such as Macropus rufus, they have an unusual pentapedal motion at slow speeds by stiffening the tail for a fifth limb. When fleeing a disturbance, they hop rapidly with the tail curled back and repeatedly utter the sound “wuluhwuluh”. Their exceptionally long tail has a broad fingernail-like protuberance beneath a dark crest of hair at its end, a peculiarity of the genus that is much broader than the other species. The name unguifera, meaning claw, is a reference to this extraordinary attribute, the purpose of which is unknown.Like the other species of the genus, they retire for the day in a shallow depression, but if disturbed they flee rapidly to find refuge in a hollow tree or thicket. Unlike the rare bridled nailtail O. fraenata, once widespread and currently rare, the northern nail-tail wallaby is not a threatened species. The other member of the genus Onychogalea, the crescent nail-tail O. lunata of the centre and west of Australia, probably became extinct in the mid twentieth century.
Animals of the same family as a Northern nail-tail wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Spectacled hare-wallaby bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
- Proserpine rock-wallaby bringing 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs) to the scale
- Tenkile bringing 9.98 kilos (22 lbs) to the scale
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo bringing 7.98 kilos (17.59 lbs) to the scale
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby bringing 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs) to the scale
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo bringing 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs) to the scale
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs) to the scale
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Northern nail-tail wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Onychogalea unguifera:
- Maroon leaf monkey with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Pileated gibbon with a weight of 5.57 kilos (12.28 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
- White-thighed surili with a weight of 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a weight of 5.31 kilos (11.71 lbs)
- Brown woolly monkey with a weight of 6.27 kilos (13.82 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Moor macaque with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
- Collared mangabey with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern nail-tail wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northern nail-tail wallaby: