How many baby Red-legged pademelons are in a litter?
A Red-legged pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 119 grams (0.26 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Thylogale). An adult Red-legged pademelon grows up to a size of 56.6 cm (1′ 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-legged pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica) is a species of small macropod found on the northeastern coast of Australia and in New Guinea. In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales. In New Guinea it is found in south central lowlands.The red-legged pademelon is usually solitary but may group together when feeding. It is found mostly in rainforests, where it is rarely seen, but it is not considered threatened. In New South Wales, however, it is considered to be vulnerable. It feeds on fallen fruit, leaves and grasses. It weighs 2.5 to 7 kg and is 38–58 cm long with a 30–47 cm tail.There are four subspecies of the red-legged pademelon:T. s. stigmatica, found in the Cairns region of Queensland;T. s. coxenii, found in Cape York Peninsula;T. s. orimo, found in New Guinea;T. s. wilcoxi, found in southern Queensland and New South Wales.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Red-legged pademelon is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tenkile with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Parma wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banded hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-legged pademelon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Southern forest bat
- Dama gazelle
- Fea’s muntjac
- Greater noctule bat
- Tickell’s bat
- Aders’s duiker
- Monjon
- Black giant squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Red-legged pademelon
What other animals weight around 4.53 kg (9.98 lbs)?
- Preuss’s monkey usually reaching 5.14 kgs (11.33 lbs)
- Mona monkey usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.57 kgs (10.08 lbs)
- Red panda usually reaching 5.17 kgs (11.4 lbs)
- Brown dorcopsis usually reaching 5.39 kgs (11.88 lbs)
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 3.66 kgs (8.07 lbs)
- Kit fox usually reaching 4.5 kgs (9.92 lbs)
- Bat-eared fox usually reaching 4.07 kgs (8.97 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-legged pademelon
Also reaching around 56.6 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Sharpe’s grysbok gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Tibetan macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Formosan rock macaque gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- François’ langur gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tasmanian devil gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)