How many baby Red kangaroos are in a litter?
A Red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 33 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Macropus). An adult Red kangaroo grows up to a size of 87.7 cm (2′ 11″).
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 red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) or red giant kangaroo is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as southern Western Australia, the east and southeast coasts, and the rainforests along the northern coast.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Red kangaroo is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Antilopine kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banded hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tenkile with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.55 kilograms (10.03 lbs)
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red kangaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bawean deer
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Birdlike noctule
- Greater noctule bat
- Hero shrew
- Sclater’s guenon
- Gray dorcopsis
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Japanese serow
Animals that get as old as a Red kangaroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Gayal with 26.17 years
- Ring-tailed lemur with 30 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- Gelada with 28 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with 32.67 years
- Black-headed spider monkey with 24 years
- White-bellied spider monkey with 28 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Black lemur with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red kangaroo
What other animals weight around 38.98 kg (85.94 lbs)?
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
- Tucuxi usually reaching 42.82 kgs (94.4 lbs)
- Wolf usually reaching 33.38 kgs (73.59 lbs)
- Calamian deer usually reaching 39.66 kgs (87.44 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Springbok usually reaching 33.39 kgs (73.61 lbs)
- Saiga antelope usually reaching 37.57 kgs (82.83 lbs)
- Snow leopard usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
- Sheep usually reaching 37.47 kgs (82.61 lbs)