How many baby Brown’s pademelons are in a litter?
A Brown’s pademelon (Thylogale browni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 23 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Thylogale). An adult Brown’s pademelon grows up to a size of 55 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.
Brown’s pademelon (Thylogale browni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Brown’s pademelon is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Allied rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Brown’s pademelon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat
- Arabian gazelle
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
- Macroscelides proboscideus
- White-footed sportive lemur
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- White-bellied free-tailed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Brown’s pademelon
What other animals weight around 5.48 kg (12.08 lbs)?
- Raccoon usually reaching 6.37 kgs (14.04 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 6.5 kgs (14.33 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka usually reaching 6.57 kgs (14.48 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby usually reaching 5.6 kgs (12.35 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- White-cheeked spider monkey usually reaching 6.24 kgs (13.76 lbs)
- Hose’s langur usually reaching 6.29 kgs (13.87 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown’s pademelon
Also reaching around 55 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Black-headed spider monkey gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Alaskan hare gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Egyptian mongoose gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Nine-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- Meller’s mongoose gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)