How many baby Red-necked pademelons are in a litter?
A Red-necked pademelon (Thylogale thetis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
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-necked 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-necked pademelon (Thylogale thetis) is a forest-dwelling marsupial living in the eastern coastal region of Australia.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Red-necked pademelon is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Agile wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-necked wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-necked pademelon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Common noctule
- Eld’s deer
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Big brown bat
- Harp seal
- Red kangaroo
- Long-finned pilot whale
- Whiskered flying squirrel
- Birdlike noctule
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
Animals that get as old as a Red-necked pademelon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Jamaican fruit bat with 10 years
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with 8.58 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with 10 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 8.83 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-necked pademelon
What other animals weight around 5.4 kg (11.9 lbs)?
- Red-legged pademelon usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Pale-throated sloth usually reaching 4.33 kgs (9.55 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Hose’s langur usually reaching 6.29 kgs (13.87 lbs)
- Pileated gibbon usually reaching 5.57 kgs (12.28 lbs)
- Mentawai langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 4.95 kgs (10.91 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Venezuelan red howler usually reaching 6.41 kgs (14.13 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey usually reaching 5.14 kgs (11.33 lbs)