How big does a Eastern bettong get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) reaches an average size of 33.1 cm (1′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 11.75 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 1.66 kg (3.67 lbs). A Eastern bettong has 1 babies at once. The Eastern bettong (genus: Bettongia) is a member of the family Potoroidae.
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 eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi), also known as the Balbo (by the Ngunnawal People who used to keep them as pets), southern bettong and Tasmanian bettong, is a bettong whose natural range includes southeastern Australia and eastern Tasmania.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern bettong
We found other animals of the Potoroidae family:
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per litter
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per litter
- Woylie with 1 babies per litter
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per litter
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per litter
- Boodie with 1 babies per litter
- Gilbert’s potoroo with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Long-nosed potoroo with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-faced potoroo with a weight of 499 grams
- Long-footed potoroo with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Eastern bettong
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern bettong:
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Gambian mongoose with a size of 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Western quoll with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-footed ferret with a size of 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Giant white-tailed rat with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail with a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern bettong
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Eastern bettong:
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- Tana River mangabey
- Smaller horseshoe bat
- Silky anteater
- Crab-eating macaque
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern bettong
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern bettong:
- Rock cavy with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Boodie with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Banded palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 12.33 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mountain beaver with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Cape fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern bettong
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bettongia gaimardi:
- Common genet with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Ornate cuscus with a weight of 1.79 kilos (3.95 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Long-tailed porcupine with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs)