How many baby Tasmanian pademelons are in a litter?
A Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii) 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 119 grams (0.26 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Thylogale). An adult Tasmanian pademelon grows up to a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii), also known as the rufous-bellied pademelon or red-bellied pademelon, is the sole species of pademelon found in Tasmania, and was formerly found throughout south-eastern Australia. This pademelon has developed heavier and bushier fur than its northern relatives, who inhabit northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.Males reach around 7 kg (15.4 lbs) in weight, 1–1.2 metres in length including the tail, and are considerably larger than the females, which average 4 kg (8.8 lbs).
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Tasmanian pademelon is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allied rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Monjon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tasmanian pademelon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- North American porcupine
- Tickell’s bat
- Long-footed treeshrew
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Mexican gray squirrel
- Western mastiff bat
- Onager
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Montane guinea pig
Animals that get as old as a Tasmanian pademelon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Common kusimanse with 9 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
- Island fox with 8 years
- Southern flying squirrel with 12 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Black giant squirrel with 10.08 years
- Myotis vivesi with 10 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Greater spear-nosed bat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tasmanian pademelon
What other animals weight around 5.85 kg (12.9 lbs)?
- De Brazza’s monkey usually reaching 5.32 kgs (11.73 lbs)
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 5.35 kgs (11.79 lbs)
- White-thighed surili usually reaching 5.9 kgs (13.01 lbs)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon usually reaching 6.43 kgs (14.18 lbs)
- Agile gibbon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 5.25 kgs (11.57 lbs)
- Black howler usually reaching 5.58 kgs (12.3 lbs)
- Mexican agouti usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)