How big does a Brown dorcopsis get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri) reaches an average size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 7.58 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 5.39 kg (11.88 lbs). A Brown dorcopsis has 1 babies at once. The Brown dorcopsis (genus: Dorcopsis) is a member of the family Macropodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri), also known as the brown forest wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to the lowlands of West New Guinea and the nearby Indonesian islands in West Papua of Misool, Salawati, and Yapen.
Animals of the same family as a Brown dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Black dorcopsis with a size of 59.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Dusky pademelon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tenkile with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Eastern grey kangaroo with a size of 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Brown’s pademelon with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Brown dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown dorcopsis:
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Pygathrix bieti with a size of 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Black howler with a size of 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tenkile with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Müeller’s gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black-footed mongoose with a size of 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Capped langur with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Margay with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Brown dorcopsis:
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Painted ringtail possum
- Guinea baboon
- Koala
- Common vampire bat
- Asian golden cat
- Caspian seal
- Striped bandicoot
- Red goral
- Tailed tailless bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown dorcopsis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown dorcopsis:
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Black dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Plains pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Spectral bat with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Moonrat with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis muelleri:
- White-thighed surili with a weight of 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Red-legged pademelon with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a weight of 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- South American gray fox with a weight of 6.34 kilos (13.98 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque with a weight of 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs)