How many baby Black-striped wallabys are in a litter?
A Black-striped wallaby (Macropus dorsalis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 34 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 Black-striped 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 black-striped wallaby (Macropus dorsalis), also known as the scrub wallaby or eastern brush wallaby, is a medium-sized wallaby found in Australia, from Townsville in Queensland to Narrabri in New South Wales. In New South Wales it is only found west of the Great Dividing Range. It is decreasing in these areas, but is not classified as threatened as a species yet. The New South Wales population, however, is classified as endangered.The black-striped wallaby resembles the mainland race of the red-necked wallaby, differing in the black line down its back, a white stripe over the hip and more red colouration (extending down the arms and further down the abdomen). It is shy, nocturnal grazer and is not well known, owing to its preference for thick scrub, where it may easily be hidden.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Black-striped wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Parma wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dingiso weighting around 9.4 kilograms (20.72 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-striped wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Midas free-tailed bat
- Brazilian porcupine
- Brown’s pademelon
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Javan rhinoceros
- Lowland paca
- Montane fish-eating rat
Animals that get as old as a Black-striped wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
- Topi with 12.5 years
- Jentink’s duiker with 17.5 years
- Commerson’s dolphin with 18 years
- Rock hyrax with 14 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Oribi with 15.75 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
- Gray fox with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Black-striped wallaby
What other animals weight around 11.23 kg (24.75 lbs)?
- Greater long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 9.7 kgs (21.38 lbs)
- Binturong usually reaching 13 kgs (28.66 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey usually reaching 9.07 kgs (20 lbs)
- Honey badger usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Water deer usually reaching 12.73 kgs (28.06 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque usually reaching 9.38 kgs (20.68 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 9.16 kgs (20.19 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
- Angola colobus usually reaching 8.99 kgs (19.82 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer usually reaching 12.39 kgs (27.32 lbs)