It is hard to guess what a Thylacine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) on average weights 30 kg (66.14 lbs).
The Thylacine is from the family Thylacinidae (genus: Thylacinus). They can live for up to 13 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Thylacines have 3 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 thylacine ( THY-lə-seen, or THY-lə-syne, also 😉 (Thylacinus cynocephalus), now extinct, is one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving about 4 million years ago. The last known live animal was captured in 1933 in Tasmania. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striped lower back, or the Tasmanian wolf because of its canid-like characteristics. It was native to Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Australian mainland.The thylacine was relatively shy and nocturnal, with the general appearance of a medium-to-large-size dog, except for its stiff tail and abdominal pouch similar to a kangaroo’s, and dark transverse stripes that radiated from the top of its back, reminiscent of a tiger. The thylacine was a formidable apex predator, though exactly how large its prey animals were is disputed. Because of convergent evolution it displayed a form and adaptations similar to the tiger and wolf of the Northern Hemisphere, despite being unrelated. Its closest living relative is either the Tasmanian devil or the numbat. The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes: the other is the water opossum. The pouch of the male thylacine served as a protective sheath covering the external reproductive organs.The thylacine had become extinct on the Australian mainland before British settlement of the continent, but it survived on the island of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributing factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat.
Animals with the same weight as a Thylacine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylacinus cynocephalus:
- Bonobo with a weight of 35.15 kilos (77.49 lbs)
- Pampas deer with a weight of 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs)
- Giant pangolin with a weight of 33 kilos (72.75 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope with a weight of 32.66 kilos (72 lbs)
- Sea otter with a weight of 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs)
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle with a weight of 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs)
- Giant otter with a weight of 26 kilos (57.32 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary with a weight of 35.38 kilos (78 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Thylacine
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Thylacine:
- Capybara
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Texas mouse
- Meerkat
- Himalayan field rat
- Greater red musk shrew
- Pyrenean desman
- Striped hog-nosed skunk
- Bunny rat
- Lesser mole-rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Thylacine
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Thylacine:
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with an average maximal age of 10.92 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Eastern bettong with an average maximal age of 11.75 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Black-mantled tamarin with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Müeller’s gibbon with an average maximal age of 14.5 years