How many baby Common wombats are in a litter?
A Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) usually gives birth to around 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 24 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vombatidae family (genus: Vombatus). An adult Common wombat grows up to a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″).
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 wombat (Vombatus ursinus), also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three extant species of wombats and the only one in the genus Vombatus. The common wombat grows to an average of 98 cm (39 in) long and a weight of 26 kg (57 lb).
Other animals of the family Vombatidae
Common wombat is a member of the Vombatidae, as are these animals:
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common wombat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Blue duiker
- Brazilian porcupine
- Bay duiker
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Collared peccary
- Himalayan goral
- Indian pipistrelle
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat
Animals that get as old as a Common wombat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.08 years:
- Muskox with 24 years
- Venezuelan red howler with 25 years
- East Caucasian tur with 22 years
- Sunda slow loris with 26.5 years
- Bahamian raccoon with 21 years
- Buru babirusa with 24 years
- Northern plains gray langur with 25 years
- African civet with 28 years
- Moose with 25 years
- Stump-tailed macaque with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common wombat
What other animals weight around 26 kg (57.32 lbs)?
- Red goral usually reaching 28.68 kgs (63.23 lbs)
- Giant otter usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- Arabian tahr usually reaching 22.06 kgs (48.63 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 25.58 kgs (56.39 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle usually reaching 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Dibatag usually reaching 28.05 kgs (61.84 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle usually reaching 21.25 kgs (46.85 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common wombat
Also reaching around 98.6 cm (3′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Black-fronted duiker gets as big as 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Chimpanzee gets as big as 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Serval gets as big as 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Peters’s duiker gets as big as 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Falkland Islands wolf gets as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Giant anteater gets as big as 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Chacoan peccary gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- African wild dog gets as big as 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Common duiker gets as big as 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Clouded leopard gets as big as 83.8 cm (2′ 9″)