How big does a White-striped dorcopsis get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown White-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni) reaches an average size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 5.5 kg (12.13 lbs). A White-striped dorcopsis has 1 babies at once. The White-striped dorcopsis (genus: Dorcopsis) is a member of the family Macropodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The greater forest wallaby or white-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the northern part of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is a common species in suitable tropical forest habitat and the IUCN lists its conservation status as being of “Least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a White-striped dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a size of 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Agile wallaby with a size of 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Western brush wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a size of 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Allied rock-wallaby with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a White-striped dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-striped dorcopsis:
- Mantled howler with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with a size of 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Rock hyrax with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Jameson’s red rock hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Raccoon dog with a size of 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Beech marten with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pileated gibbon with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-striped dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-striped dorcopsis:
- Long-tongued nectar bat
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- East Caucasian tur
- Small dorcopsis
- Harp seal
- Horsfield’s tarsier
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Black wildebeest
- Crowned lemur
Animals with the same weight as a White-striped dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis hageni:
- Maroon leaf monkey with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Raccoon with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Tibetan sand fox with a weight of 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs)
- Mentawai langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Koala with a weight of 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs)
- European wildcat with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Crab-eating fox with a weight of 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
- Arctic hare with a weight of 4.42 kilos (9.74 lbs)