How many baby Antilopine kangaroos are in a litter?
A Antilopine kangaroo (Macropus antilopinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 34 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Macropus). An adult Antilopine kangaroo grows up to a size of 64.6 cm (2′ 2″).
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 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.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Antilopine kangaroo is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Banded hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown’s pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western brush wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Parma wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Antilopine kangaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Olive colobus
- Sambar deer
- Grey rhebok
- Beira (antelope)
- Michoacan deer mouse
- East Caucasian tur
- Four-horned antelope
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Desert long-eared bat
Animals that get as old as a Antilopine kangaroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16 years:
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Black bearded saki with 18 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 15.25 years
- Nabarlek with 17 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 14 years
- Mountain goat with 19.17 years
- Leopard cat with 15 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Clouded leopard with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Antilopine kangaroo
What other animals weight around 27.28 kg (60.13 lbs)?
- Common wallaroo usually reaching 25.99 kgs (57.3 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle usually reaching 24.47 kgs (53.95 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) usually reaching 23.13 kgs (50.99 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Maned wolf usually reaching 23.31 kgs (51.39 lbs)
- Sea otter usually reaching 27.46 kgs (60.54 lbs)
- Mountain reedbuck usually reaching 29.2 kgs (64.37 lbs)
- Tufted deer usually reaching 23.04 kgs (50.79 lbs)
- Roe deer usually reaching 22.45 kgs (49.49 lbs)