How big does a Gray dorcopsis get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Gray dorcopsis (Dorcopsis luctuosa) reaches an average size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 8 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 4.95 kg (10.91 lbs). A Gray dorcopsis has 1 babies at once. The Gray 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 gray dorcopsis or gray forest wallaby (Dorcopsis luctuosa) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Gray dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Toolache wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Tasmanian pademelon with 1 babies per litter
- Quokka with 1 babies per litter
- White-striped dorcopsis with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a size of 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Godman’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray dorcopsis:
- Cape fox with a size of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Chinese mountain cat with a size of 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Southern muriqui with a size of 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pampas cat with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Indian crested porcupine with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Collared mangabey with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gray dorcopsis:
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Hippopotamus
- Telefomin cuscus
- Common spotted cuscus
- Northern cave bat
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Aardvark
- Tana River red colobus
- Silver-haired bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gray dorcopsis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gray dorcopsis:
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Plantain squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Common degu with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Cape gray mongoose with an average maximal age of 8.67 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with an average maximal age of 8.5 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Marbled polecat with an average maximal age of 8.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gray dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis luctuosa:
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.02 kilos (8.86 lbs)
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs)
- Brown dorcopsis with a weight of 5.39 kilos (11.88 lbs)
- Tibetan sand fox with a weight of 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- Kit fox with a weight of 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs)
- Otter civet with a weight of 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Large-spotted civet with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)