How many baby Nabarleks are in a litter?
A Nabarlek (Petrogale concinna) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 31 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 9.2 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Petrogale). An adult Nabarlek grows up to a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 nabarlek, Petrogale concinna, is a tiny species of macropod found in northern Australia, a shy and nocturnal animal that resides in rocky hollows and forages in the surrounding area. The diet is grasses, sedges, and ferns found in and around their scrub covered refuges. They are distinguished by a reddish tinge to the mostly grey fur and a distinct stripe at the cheek. They move with great speed and agility when observed, with a forward leaning posture and a bushy tail that arches over the back.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Nabarlek is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Gray dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Parma wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tenkile with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Nabarlek
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Sulawesi rousette
- Allied rock-wallaby
- Southern long-nosed bat
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Painted ringtail possum
- Dark-winged lesser house bat
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- South Andean deer
- Northern giraffe
Animals that get as old as a Nabarlek
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Suni with 14 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
- Arabian tahr with 14 years
- Large Indian civet with 20 years
- Thorold’s deer with 18 years
- Himalayan goral with 17.58 years
- Impala with 17.75 years
- Blackbuck with 20.25 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 14 years
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with 19.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Nabarlek
What other animals weight around 1.4 kg (3.08 lbs)?
- Brown greater galago usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Woylie usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Malagasy giant rat usually reaching 1.18 kgs (2.6 lbs)
- Angolan talapoin usually reaching 1.25 kgs (2.76 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus usually reaching 1.44 kgs (3.17 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose usually reaching 1.31 kgs (2.89 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Selous’s mongoose usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)