How many baby Red-necked wallabys are in a litter?
A Red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) 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 30 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-necked wallaby 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-necked wallaby or Bennett’s wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) is a medium-sized macropod marsupial (wallaby), common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Red-necked wallabies have been introduced to several other countries, including New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and the Isle of Man.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Red-necked wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Small dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-legged pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tenkile with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nabarlek with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-necked wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gray brocket
- Harp seal
- Taphozous philippinensis
- Brown long-eared bat
- Northern glider
- Earless water rat
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Takin
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Zebra duiker
Animals that get as old as a Red-necked wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 19 years:
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 20.17 years
- Nilgiri tahr with 17.25 years
- Northern viscacha with 19.5 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- European pine marten with 17 years
- Proboscis monkey with 21 years
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- South American coati with 17.67 years
- Masked palm civet with 18 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-necked wallaby
What other animals weight around 16.83 kg (37.09 lbs)?
- Ethiopian wolf usually reaching 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Saudi gazelle usually reaching 16 kgs (35.27 lbs)
- Black musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
- Mandrill usually reaching 16.74 kgs (36.91 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Black wallaroo usually reaching 17 kgs (37.48 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac usually reaching 13.5 kgs (29.76 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Pygmy brocket usually reaching 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)