How many baby Allied rock-wallabys are in a litter?
A Allied rock-wallaby (Petrogale assimilis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 9.2 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Petrogale). An adult Allied rock-wallaby grows up to a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 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 allied rock-wallaby – Petrogale assimilis – is a species of rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It forms part of the P. lateralis/penicillata species complex and is very similar to six other species of rock-wallaby found in this area; these include the Cape York rock-wallaby (P. coenensis), the unadorned rock-wallaby (P. inornata), the Herbert’s rock-wallaby (P. herberti), the Godman’s rock-wallaby (P. godmani), the Mareeba rock-wallaby (P. mareeba) and the Mount Claro rock-wallaby (P. sharmani).
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Allied rock-wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown’s pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Allied rock-wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Common eland
- Great flying fox
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Least horseshoe bat
- Agile gibbon
- Aye-aye
- Senegal bushbaby
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Northern brushtail possum
- Southern viscacha
Animals that get as old as a Allied rock-wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13 years:
- Pronghorn with 12 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with 12 years
- Philippine tarsier with 15 years
- Javan warty pig with 14 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Sugar glider with 14 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Allied rock-wallaby
What other animals weight around 4.63 kg (10.21 lbs)?
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 3.74 kgs (8.25 lbs)
- Groundhog usually reaching 3.88 kgs (8.55 lbs)
- Maned sloth usually reaching 4.47 kgs (9.85 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 4.46 kgs (9.83 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 4.73 kgs (10.43 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)