How many baby Lowlands tree-kangaroos are in a litter?
A Lowlands tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus spadix) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 200 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 0.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Dendrolagus). An adult Lowlands tree-kangaroo grows up to a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″).
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 lowlands tree-kangaroo or lowland tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus spadix) is a species of tree-kangaroo in the family Macropodidae.The marsupial is endemic to the Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests ecoregion in southwestern Papua New Guinea, on New Guinea island.ConservationDendrolagus spadix is an IUCN Red List Vulnerable species, threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Lowlands tree-kangaroo is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Dusky pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lowlands tree-kangaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Burchell’s zebra
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- Brown fur seal
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Sooty mangabey
- Greater nectar bat
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Roan antelope
- Montane guinea pig
- Woermann’s bat
Animals with the same weight as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo
What other animals weight around 8.47 kg (18.67 lbs)?
- Canada lynx usually reaching 9.73 kgs (21.45 lbs)
- Red-faced spider monkey usually reaching 8.7 kgs (19.18 lbs)
- Malayan civet usually reaching 7.35 kgs (16.2 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey usually reaching 9.07 kgs (20 lbs)
- Gee’s golden langur usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 8.31 kgs (18.32 lbs)
- Black colobus usually reaching 9.1 kgs (20.06 lbs)
- Western red colobus usually reaching 8.43 kgs (18.58 lbs)
- Lowland paca usually reaching 8.18 kgs (18.03 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo
Also reaching around 60.3 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Jaguarundi gets as big as 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Antelope jackrabbit gets as big as 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black-footed mongoose gets as big as 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- European badger gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Small Indian civet gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Geoffroy’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black crested mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Ethiopian highland hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)