How many baby Swamp wallabys are in a litter?
A Swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) 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 35 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 28 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Wallabia). An adult Swamp wallaby grows up to a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 3″).
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 swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the black wallaby, with other names including black-tailed wallaby, fern wallaby, black pademelon, stinker (in Queensland), and black stinker (in New South Wales) on account of its characteristic swampy odour. The swamp wallaby is the only living member of the genus Wallabia.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Swamp wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dingiso weighting around 9.4 kilograms (20.72 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allied rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Swamp wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Big free-tailed bat
- Central American agouti
- Rwanda African mole-rat
- Whiskered flying squirrel
- Impala
- Common brown lemur
- Javan surili
- Dusky leaf monkey
- White-tailed deer
- Boodie
Animals that get as old as a Swamp wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 15.25 years
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
- Northern flying squirrel with 13 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 16 years
- American red squirrel with 12 years
- Grant’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Jentink’s duiker with 17.5 years
- Nabarlek with 17 years
- Red-handed tamarin with 15.33 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Swamp wallaby
What other animals weight around 15 kg (33.07 lbs)?
- Chacma baboon usually reaching 17.73 kgs (39.09 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Black wallaroo usually reaching 17 kgs (37.48 lbs)
- Drill (animal) usually reaching 14.23 kgs (31.37 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker usually reaching 14.44 kgs (31.83 lbs)
- Cape porcupine usually reaching 14.92 kgs (32.89 lbs)
- Dorcas gazelle usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 12.06 kgs (26.59 lbs)
- Common duiker usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Plate-toothed giant hutia usually reaching 13.7 kgs (30.2 lbs)