How many baby Whiptail wallabys are in a litter?
A Whiptail wallaby (Macropus parryi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 37 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 Whiptail 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 whiptail wallaby (Macropus parryi), also known as the pretty-faced wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in eastern Australia. It is locally common from Cooktown in Queensland to near Grafton in New South Wales.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Whiptail wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western brush wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dingiso weighting around 9.4 kilograms (20.72 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Whiptail wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Delacour’s langur
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Mantled howler
- Senegal bushbaby
- Felou gundi
- Giant panda
- Ghost bat
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Pond bat
Animals that get as old as a Whiptail wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Water chevrotain with 14 years
- Southern tree hyrax with 12.25 years
- Cape grysbok with 14 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
- Eastern bettong with 11.75 years
- Black-footed mongoose with 15.83 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 15 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Zebra duiker with 12.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Whiptail wallaby
What other animals weight around 12.67 kg (27.92 lbs)?
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
- European badger usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
- Capped langur usually reaching 11.21 kgs (24.71 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer usually reaching 13.31 kgs (29.34 lbs)
- Indian crested porcupine usually reaching 14.3 kgs (31.53 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer usually reaching 12.39 kgs (27.32 lbs)
- Side-striped jackal usually reaching 10.4 kgs (22.93 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Black musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
- Water deer usually reaching 12.73 kgs (28.06 lbs)