How many baby White-striped dorcopsiss are in a litter?
A White-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Dorcopsis). An adult White-striped dorcopsis grows up to a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″).
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 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”.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
White-striped dorcopsis is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.55 kilograms (10.03 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nabarlek with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with White-striped dorcopsis
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Dian’s tarsier
- Argentine brown bat
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Long-legged bat
- Daubenton’s bat
- Black capuchin
- Moose
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
- Painted ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a White-striped dorcopsis
What other animals weight around 5.5 kg (12.13 lbs)?
- De Brazza’s monkey usually reaching 5.32 kgs (11.73 lbs)
- Coypu usually reaching 6.36 kgs (14.02 lbs)
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine usually reaching 4.49 kgs (9.9 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat usually reaching 5.49 kgs (12.1 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Mexican agouti usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Sun-tailed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-striped dorcopsis
Also reaching around 53.8 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Jameson’s red rock hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Banded palm civet gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Smith’s red rock hare gets as big as 43.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Japanese hare gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Northern plains gray langur gets as big as 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Corsac fox gets as big as 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)