How many baby Common wallaroos are in a litter?
A Common wallaroo (Macropus robustus) 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 Common wallaroo grows up to a size of 87.7 cm (2′ 11″).
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 common wallaroo (Osphranter robustus) or wallaroo, also known as euro or hill wallaroo is a species of macropod. The word euro is particularly applied to one subspecies (O. r. erubescens).The eastern wallaroo is mostly nocturnal and solitary, and is one of the more common macropods. It makes a loud hissing noise and some subspecies are sexually dimorphic, like most wallaroos.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Common wallaroo is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.55 kilograms (10.03 lbs)
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common wallaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
- Mindanao treeshrew
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Sooty mustached bat
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Tana River red colobus
- Scimitar oryx
- Philippine pygmy squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Common wallaroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24 years:
- Golden lion tamarin with 24.75 years
- Cattle with 20 years
- Daubenton’s bat with 28 years
- Common vampire bat with 19.5 years
- Bald uakari with 27 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin with 24.5 years
- White-faced saki with 20.67 years
- Antarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with 19.75 years
- Red river hog with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common wallaroo
What other animals weight around 25.99 kg (57.3 lbs)?
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Sea otter usually reaching 27.46 kgs (60.54 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle usually reaching 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Roe deer usually reaching 22.45 kgs (49.49 lbs)
- Red wolf usually reaching 26.7 kgs (58.86 lbs)
- Giant otter usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- Dwarf blue sheep usually reaching 29.27 kgs (64.53 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle usually reaching 26.84 kgs (59.17 lbs)
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 28.75 kgs (63.38 lbs)