How many baby Eastern hare-wallabys are in a litter?
A Eastern hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes leporides) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 259 grams (0.57 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Lagorchestes). An adult Eastern hare-wallaby grows up to a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 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 eastern hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes leporides) once also known as the common hare wallaby, is an extinct species of wallaby that was native to southeastern Australia. It was first described by John Gould in 1841.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Eastern hare-wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Monjon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nabarlek with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Antilopine kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern hare-wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Robert’s snow vole
- Evening bat
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Sheep
- Common brushtail possum
- Northern plains gray langur
- Hottentot golden mole
- Grant’s forest shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern hare-wallaby
What other animals weight around 3 kg (6.61 lbs)?
- Ring-tailed lemur usually reaching 2.63 kgs (5.8 lbs)
- Dryas monkey usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Aye-aye usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.6 kgs (5.73 lbs)
- Giant forest genet usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Lesser cane rat usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 2.46 kgs (5.42 lbs)
- Red-tailed monkey usually reaching 3.54 kgs (7.8 lbs)
- Crested agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)