How many baby Small dorcopsiss are in a litter?
A Small dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus vanheurni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Dorcopsulus). An adult Small dorcopsis grows up to a size of 38.7 cm (1′ 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 lesser forest wallaby or small dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus vanheurni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the mountainous interior of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is less common than it used to be and the IUCN has assessed it as being “near threatened”.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Small dorcopsis is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tenkile with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tammar wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-legged pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dingiso weighting around 9.4 kilograms (20.72 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Small dorcopsis
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Black-striped wallaby
- Smaller horseshoe bat
- Rufous horseshoe bat
- Least horseshoe bat
- Red-flanked duiker
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Taruca
- Woodlark cuscus
Animals with the same weight as a Small dorcopsis
What other animals weight around 1.89 kg (4.17 lbs)?
- Red-bellied lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- African palm civet usually reaching 2.17 kgs (4.78 lbs)
- Southern viscacha usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Subalpine woolly rat usually reaching 1.99 kgs (4.39 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Indian giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Andean hairy armadillo usually reaching 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
- Hainan hare usually reaching 1.52 kgs (3.35 lbs)
- Silvery greater galago usually reaching 1.58 kgs (3.48 lbs)
- Island fox usually reaching 1.92 kgs (4.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Small dorcopsis
Also reaching around 38.7 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Swamp rabbit gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common kusimanse gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Ruddy mongoose gets as big as 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cacomistle gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- American hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mexican prairie dog gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Lesser grison gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Granada hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Banded palm civet gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)