How many baby Proserpine rock-wallabys are in a litter?
A Proserpine rock-wallaby (Petrogale persephone) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 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 Proserpine rock-wallaby grows up to a size of 100 cm (3′ 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.
The Proserpine rock-wallaby (Petrogale persephone) is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to a small area in Conway National Park, Dryander National Park, Gloucester Island National Park, and around the town of Airlie Beach, all in Whitsunday Shire in Queensland, Australia. It is a threatened species, being classified by the IUCN as endangered.The Proserpine rock-wallaby is mostly grey in colour and is a timid grass-eater that rarely ventures far from rock shelter. It is distinguished from the many other rock wallabies found in northeastern Queensland by its larger size and longer tail, tipped with white. It was unknown to science until 1977, when a single individual was captured after farmers at Proserpine had spoken of a strange form of rock wallaby in the area.The Proserpine rock-wallaby is found only in a relatively intensively-settled area, but it is in competition with other more successful rock-wallaby species, which competition is probably responsible for its threatened status.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Proserpine rock-wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western brush wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Proserpine rock-wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Ollala brothers’s titi
- Argali
- Long-nosed potoroo
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Brown titi
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
- Ringed seal
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Pygmy ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Proserpine rock-wallaby
What other animals weight around 5.6 kg (12.35 lbs)?
- Bobcat usually reaching 6.38 kgs (14.07 lbs)
- Godman’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Lion-tailed macaque usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- De Brazza’s monkey usually reaching 5.32 kgs (11.73 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 5.28 kgs (11.64 lbs)
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.9 kgs (10.8 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Crab-eating fox usually reaching 5.74 kgs (12.65 lbs)
- Venezuelan red howler usually reaching 6.41 kgs (14.13 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Proserpine rock-wallaby
Also reaching around 100 cm (3′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Buru babirusa gets as big as 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle gets as big as 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Black duiker gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Klipspringer gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Cameroon clawless otter gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Chacoan peccary gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Giant armadillo gets as big as 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Large Indian civet gets as big as 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Dorcas gazelle gets as big as 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Bornean orangutan gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)