How many baby Ursine tree-kangaroos are in a litter?
A Ursine tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 200 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 0.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Dendrolagus). An adult Ursine tree-kangaroo grows up to a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″).
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 ursine tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to the Vogelkop and possibly the Fakfak Peninsulas, West Papua, Indonesia. Other common names for this species include the black tree-kangaroo, the Vogelkop tree-kangaroo and the white-throated tree-kangaroo. It is threatened by habitat destruction and is listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Ursine tree-kangaroo is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Quokka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Antilopine kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dingiso weighting around 9.4 kilograms (20.72 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ursine tree-kangaroo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown fur seal
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Greater grison
- Pig-tailed langur
- Ghost bat
- Collared peccary
- Brown’s pademelon
- Natal red rock hare
- Juan Fernández fur seal
- Southwestern myotis
Animals that get as old as a Ursine tree-kangaroo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20.17 years:
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- Southern reedbuck with 16.75 years
- Buru babirusa with 24 years
- Bontebok with 21.67 years
- Leopard with 23 years
- American marten with 19 years
- East Caucasian tur with 22 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ursine tree-kangaroo
What other animals weight around 13.28 kg (29.27 lbs)?
- Klipspringer usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf usually reaching 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac usually reaching 10.76 kgs (23.72 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac usually reaching 13.5 kgs (29.76 lbs)
- Harvey’s duiker usually reaching 14.5 kgs (31.97 lbs)
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 15.02 kgs (33.11 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.3 kgs (27.12 lbs)
- Plate-toothed giant hutia usually reaching 13.7 kgs (30.2 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Capped langur usually reaching 11.21 kgs (24.71 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ursine tree-kangaroo
Also reaching around 62.4 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- De Brazza’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik gets as big as 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Hog badger gets as big as 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Giant forest genet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Rhesus macaque gets as big as 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Nilgiri marten gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)