How many baby Agile wallabys are in a litter?
A Agile wallaby (Macropus agilis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 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 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Macropus). An adult Agile wallaby grows up to a size of 64.6 cm (2′ 2″).
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 agile wallaby (Macropus agilis) also known as the sandy wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in northern Australia and New Guinea. It is the most common wallaby in Australia’s north. The agile wallaby is a sandy colour becoming paler below. It is sometimes solitary and at other times sociable and grazes on grasses and other plants. The agile wallaby is not considered threatened.Kunwinjku at Kudjekbinj, western Arnhem Land call this animal konabalar, the male warradjurk and the female, malbe. According to Kunwinjku elder Peterson Nganjmirra, the “small one” (joey) is known as njip. Bininj Kunwok dictionary gives different names, warradjangkal for male agile wallaby, merlbbe for female.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Agile wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Eastern hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western brush wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Agile wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Taiwan vole
- Tricolored bat
- Proserpine rock-wallaby
- Black and rufous elephant shrew
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
- Hammer-headed bat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Azara’s night monkey
- Japanese macaque
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Animals that get as old as a Agile wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Grey rhebok with 12.25 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 14 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Malagasy civet with 11 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 13.17 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- Cave myotis with 11.25 years
- Pudú with 10 years
- Northern flying squirrel with 13 years
Animals with the same weight as a Agile wallaby
What other animals weight around 11.86 kg (26.14 lbs)?
- Sulawesi bear cuscus usually reaching 10 kgs (22.05 lbs)
- Wolverine usually reaching 12.8 kgs (28.22 lbs)
- Binturong usually reaching 13 kgs (28.66 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- European badger usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
- Ocelot usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 13.28 kgs (29.28 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- Black musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Agile wallaby
Also reaching around 64.6 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Caracal gets as big as 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern river otter gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby gets as big as 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Asian palm civet gets as big as 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tibetan sand fox gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Salt’s dik-dik gets as big as 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)