How many baby Bridled nail-tail wallabys are in a litter?
A Bridled nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 22 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Onychogalea). An adult Bridled nail-tail wallaby grows up to a size of 52.5 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 bridled nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata), also known as the bridled nail-tailed wallaby, bridled nailtail wallaby, bridled wallaby, merrin, and flashjack, is a vulnerable species of macropod. It is a small wallaby found in three isolated areas in Queensland, Australia, and whose population is declining. The total population of the species is currently estimated to be less than 500 mature individuals in the wild, and 2285 in captivity.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Bridled nail-tail wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.55 kilograms (10.03 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Toolache wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Striped bush squirrel
- Javan slit-faced bat
- Potto
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Malayan porcupine
- Ocelot
- Natal red rock hare
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
Animals that get as old as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with 4.58 years
- Pyrenean desman with 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Val’s gundi with 5 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with 4 years
- African striped weasel with 5.17 years
- Abbott’s duiker with 5.42 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Euphrates jerboa with 4.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
What other animals weight around 4.95 kg (10.9 lbs)?
- Suni usually reaching 5.63 kgs (12.41 lbs)
- Tayra usually reaching 4.14 kgs (9.13 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 5.7 kgs (12.57 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Short-eared rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.02 kgs (8.86 lbs)
- Toque macaque usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 5.25 kgs (11.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Also reaching around 52.5 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey gets as big as 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Crab-eating macaque gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Jameson’s red rock hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Giant forest genet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Greater mouse-deer gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Verreaux’s sifaka gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Snowshoe hare gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bunyoro rabbit gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur gets as big as 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)