How many baby Dusky pademelons are in a litter?
A Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 119 grams (0.26 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Thylogale). An adult Dusky pademelon grows up to a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″).
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 dusky pademelon or dusky wallaby (Thylogale brunii) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the Aru and Kai islands and the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands ecoregion of Papua Province of Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Dusky pademelon is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.55 kilograms (10.03 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Parma wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Toolache wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dusky pademelon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Patagonian mara
- Guinea baboon
- Northern fur seal
- Anoa
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Bechstein’s bat
- Angola colobus
- Banteng
- Australian sea lion
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky pademelon
What other animals weight around 2.74 kg (6.04 lbs)?
- Eastern hare-wallaby usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Northern common cuscus usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Common brushtail possum usually reaching 2.69 kgs (5.93 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Quokka usually reaching 3.03 kgs (6.68 lbs)
- Giant forest genet usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Cat usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- Ring-tailed lemur usually reaching 2.63 kgs (5.8 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Broom hare usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dusky pademelon
Also reaching around 54.5 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- White-nosed saki gets as big as 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cape genet gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Swift fox gets as big as 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Pennant’s colobus gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Common genet gets as big as 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Brown woolly monkey gets as big as 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Campbell’s mona monkey gets as big as 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Southern tamandua gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)