What is the maximal age a Antilopine kangaroo reaches?
An adult Antilopine kangaroo (Macropus antilopinus) usually gets as old as 16 years.
Antilopine kangaroos are around 34 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 449 grams (0.99 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). As a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Macropus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 64.6 cm (2′ 2″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The antilopine kangaroo (Osphranter antilopinus), sometimes called the antilopine wallaroo or the antilopine wallaby, is a species of macropod found in northern Australia: in Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, the Top End of the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a locally common, gregarious grazer.
Animals of the same family as a Antilopine kangaroo
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Macropodidae):
- Red-necked wallaby becoming 19 years old
- Dingiso growing to a mass of 9.4 kgs (20.72 lbs)
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern grey kangaroo becoming 24 years old
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby becoming 12 years old
- Red-necked pademelon becoming 9 years old
- Common wallaroo becoming 24 years old
- Tasmanian pademelon becoming 10 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Antilopine kangaroo
With an average age of 16 years, Antilopine kangaroo are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 15 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat usually reaching 15 years
- Lowland paca usually reaching 16 years
- Yellow-bellied glider usually reaching 16 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 15.5 years
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 17.25 years
- Nilgiri tahr usually reaching 17.25 years
- Red-necked wallaby usually reaching 19 years
- Red panda usually reaching 14 years
- Sable usually reaching 15 years
Animals with the same number of babies Antilopine kangaroo
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Chestnut-bellied titi
- Barbary macaque
- Red-necked wallaby
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Canyon bat
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Water buffalo
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle
Weighting as much as Antilopine kangaroo
A fully grown Antilopine kangaroo reaches around 27.28 kg (60.13 lbs). So do these animals:
- Arabian tahr weighting 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs) on average
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat weighting 26.18 kilos (57.72 lbs) on average
- Tufted deer weighting 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) on average
- Mongolian gazelle weighting 28.22 kilos (62.21 lbs) on average
- Common wallaroo weighting 25.99 kilos (57.3 lbs) on average
- Red-fronted gazelle weighting 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) on average
- Snow leopard weighting 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) on average
- Red-fronted gazelle weighting 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) on average
- Common wombat weighting 26 kilos (57.32 lbs) on average
- Finless porpoise weighting 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) on average