It is hard to guess what a Banded hare-wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) on average weights 1.94 kg (4.28 lbs).
The Banded hare-wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Lagostrophus). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 52.4 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Banded hare-wallabys have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The banded hare-wallaby, mernine, or munning (Lagostrophus fasciatus) is a marsupial currently found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island, and it appears to have been successful. It has also been reintroduced to Wadderin Sanctuary, near Narembeen in the central wheatbelt, in 2013.
Animals of the same family as a Banded hare-wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Brown’s pademelon bringing 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs) to the scale
- Black wallaroo bringing 17 kilos (37.48 lbs) to the scale
- Nabarlek bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Agile wallaby bringing 11.86 kilos (26.15 lbs) to the scale
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby bringing 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) to the scale
- Northern nail-tail wallaby bringing 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern grey kangaroo bringing 33.51 kilos (73.88 lbs) to the scale
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo bringing 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Banded hare-wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lagostrophus fasciatus:
- Malagasy civet with a weight of 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs)
- Central American agouti with a weight of 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs)
- Small-toothed palm civet with a weight of 2.32 kilos (5.11 lbs)
- Cape genet with a weight of 2.07 kilos (4.56 lbs)
- Hamlyn’s monkey with a weight of 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs)
- Subalpine woolly rat with a weight of 1.99 kilos (4.39 lbs)
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.62 kilos (3.57 lbs)
- Liberian mongoose with a weight of 1.82 kilos (4.01 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer with a weight of 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs)
- Granada hare with a weight of 2.33 kilos (5.14 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Banded hare-wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Banded hare-wallaby:
- Lesser tree mouse
- Collared peccary
- Azara’s night monkey
- Earless water rat
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Ground pangolin
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Northern bat
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Banded hare-wallaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Banded hare-wallaby:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Yellow-necked mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years