It is hard to guess what a Common wombat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) on average weights 26 kg (57.32 lbs).
The Common wombat is from the family Vombatidae (genus: Vombatus). They can live for up to 26.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 98.6 cm (3′ 3″). Usually, Common wombats 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 common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three extant species of wombats and the only one in the genus Vombatus. The common wombat grows to an average of 98 cm (39 in) long and a weight of 26 kg (57 lb).
Animals of the same family as a Common wombat
We found other animals of the Vombatidae family:
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat bringing 26.18 kilos (57.72 lbs) to the scale
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat bringing 31.88 kilos (70.28 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Common wombat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vombatus ursinus:
- Przewalski’s gazelle with a weight of 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs)
- Grey rhebok with a weight of 22.62 kilos (49.87 lbs)
- Sea otter with a weight of 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs)
- Cameroon clawless otter with a weight of 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs)
- Red goral with a weight of 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo with a weight of 25.58 kilos (56.39 lbs)
- Giant otter with a weight of 26 kilos (57.32 lbs)
- Red wolf with a weight of 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with a weight of 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs)
- Antilopine kangaroo with a weight of 27.28 kilos (60.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common wombat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common wombat:
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Iberian lynx with a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Golden jackal with a size of 83 cm (2′ 9″)
- Cameroon clawless otter with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Giant otter with a size of 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Serval with a size of 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common wombat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common wombat:
- Grant’s gazelle
- Feather-tailed possum
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Melanomys caliginosus
- Scimitar oryx
- Delicate mouse
- Dormer’s bat
- Mentawai langur
- Harp seal
- Siamang
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common wombat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common wombat:
- Cacomistle with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Moose with an average maximal age of 25 years
- South American fur seal with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Amazonian manatee with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Tana River mangabey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Red deer with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
- Striped hyena with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Sambar deer with an average maximal age of 26.42 years
- Proboscis monkey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- King colobus with an average maximal age of 30.5 years