How many baby Macleay’s dorcopsiss are in a litter?
A Macleay’s dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus macleayi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 674 grams (1.49 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Dorcopsulus). An adult Macleay’s dorcopsis grows up to a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″).
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.
Macleay’s dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus macleayi), also known as the Papuan dorcopsis or the Papuan forest wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. Being little threatened by habitat destruction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Macleay’s dorcopsis is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Monjon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banded hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Macleay’s dorcopsis
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dama gazelle
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- White rhinoceros
- South American fur seal
- Southern forest bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Narwhal
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Tufted capuchin
- Hispaniolan solenodon
Animals with the same weight as a Macleay’s dorcopsis
What other animals weight around 2.78 kg (6.13 lbs)?
- Colombian white-faced capuchin usually reaching 3.01 kgs (6.64 lbs)
- Giant forest genet usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin usually reaching 2.79 kgs (6.15 lbs)
- Palawan stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Ring-tailed lemur usually reaching 2.63 kgs (5.8 lbs)
- Common brown lemur usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Black bearded saki usually reaching 2.97 kgs (6.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Macleay’s dorcopsis
Also reaching around 39.9 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Bonnet macaque gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Island fox gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Six-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common brown lemur gets as big as 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tufted ground squirrel gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Kodkod gets as big as 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-eared opossum gets as big as 36 cm (1′ 3″)