How many baby Lake Mackay hare-wallabys are in a litter?
A Lake Mackay hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes asomatus) 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 Lake Mackay 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 Lake Mackay hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes asomatus), also known as the central hare-wallaby or kuluwarri, is an extinct species of macropod formerly found in central Australia. Very little is known about it.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Lake Mackay hare-wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nabarlek with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Servaline genet
- Moor macaque
- Red deer
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Chiapan deer mouse
- Spectral tarsier
- Maned rat
- Zebra duiker
- Short-beaked echidna
Animals with the same weight as a Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
What other animals weight around 1.5 kg (3.31 lbs)?
- Clara’s echymipera usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Ornate cuscus usually reaching 1.79 kgs (3.95 lbs)
- Selous’s mongoose usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Alexander’s kusimanse usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.41 kgs (3.11 lbs)
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Gambian pouched rat usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)