How many baby Rufous rat-kangaroos are in a litter?
A Rufous rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 22 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.24 kg (11.55 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Aepyprymnus). An adult Rufous rat-kangaroo grows up to a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The rufous rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens), more commonly known as the rufous bettong, is a small marsupial species of the family Potoroidae found in Australia. It is not classified as threatened. The rufous bettong is about the size of a full-grown rabbit.
Other animals of the family Potoroidae
Rufous rat-kangaroo is a member of the Potoroidae, as are these animals:
- Eastern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woylie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-footed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting only 499 grams
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Boodie with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rufous rat-kangaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- Northern greater galago
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Black-shanked douc
- Thumbless bat
- White-tailed deer
- Subantarctic fur seal
- Black squirrel monkey
- Squirrel glider
- Giant panda
Animals that get as old as a Rufous rat-kangaroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8 years:
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 7 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with 7 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with 8 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Crowned lemur with 9.17 years
- Pacarana with 9.33 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rufous rat-kangaroo
What other animals weight around 2.81 kg (6.18 lbs)?
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Rüppell’s fox usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Asian palm civet usually reaching 3.2 kgs (7.05 lbs)
- White-footed saki usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
- Wolf’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.26 kgs (7.19 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.6 kgs (5.73 lbs)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- Kodkod usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)