How many baby Banded hare-wallabys are in a litter?
A Banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 196 grams (0.43 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Lagostrophus). An adult Banded hare-wallaby grows up to a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″).
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 banded hare-wallaby, mernine, or munning (Lagostrophus fasciatus) is a marsupial currently found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island, and it appears to have been successful. It has also been reintroduced to Wadderin Sanctuary, near Narembeen in the central wheatbelt, in 2013.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Banded hare-wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Parma wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western brush wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Monjon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Banded hare-wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Ozimops planiceps
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Chital
- Long-legged bat
- Silky anteater
- Parma wallaby
- Large slit-faced bat
- Polar bear
Animals that get as old as a Banded hare-wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
- Striped field mouse with 4 years
- Long-legged myotis with 4.25 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with 3.25 years
- Northern birch mouse with 4 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 3.5 years
- Japanese shrew mole with 3.5 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Banded hare-wallaby
What other animals weight around 1.94 kg (4.28 lbs)?
- Beech marten usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Crested servaline genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Liberian mongoose usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Indian hare usually reaching 2.3 kgs (5.07 lbs)
- Burmese ferret-badger usually reaching 1.85 kgs (4.08 lbs)
- Chinese hare usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted genet usually reaching 1.95 kgs (4.3 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus usually reaching 1.63 kgs (3.59 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Tolai hare usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)