It is hard to guess what a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bennett’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus) on average weights 10.48 kg (23.1 lbs).
The Bennett’s tree-kangaroo is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dendrolagus). They can live for up to 20 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 49.9 cm (1′ 8″). Usually, Bennett’s tree-kangaroos 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.
Bennett’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus) is a large tree-kangaroo. Males can weigh from 11.5 kg up to almost 14 kg (25 to 31 lbs), while the females range between about 8 to 10.6 kg (17.6 to 23 lbs). They are very agile and are able to leap 9 metres (30 ft) down to another branch and have been known to drop as far as 18 metres (59 ft) to the ground without injury.
Animals of the same family as a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Agile wallaby bringing 11.86 kilos (26.15 lbs) to the scale
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo bringing 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs) to the scale
- Red-necked wallaby bringing 16.83 kilos (37.1 lbs) to the scale
- White-striped dorcopsis bringing 5.5 kilos (12.13 lbs) to the scale
- Western brush wallaby bringing 8 kilos (17.64 lbs) to the scale
- Western grey kangaroo bringing 25.58 kilos (56.39 lbs) to the scale
- Tammar wallaby bringing 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs) to the scale
- Small dorcopsis bringing 1.89 kilos (4.17 lbs) to the scale
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby bringing 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) to the scale
- Gray dorcopsis bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendrolagus bennettianus:
- Toolache wallaby with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Pygathrix bieti with a weight of 11 kilos (24.25 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a weight of 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs)
- Indri with a weight of 8.61 kilos (18.98 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey with a weight of 9.07 kilos (20 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 9.16 kilos (20.19 lbs)
- Beira (antelope) with a weight of 10.91 kilos (24.05 lbs)
- Capped langur with a weight of 11.21 kilos (24.71 lbs)
- Iberian lynx with a weight of 11.08 kilos (24.43 lbs)
- Pacarana with a weight of 12.5 kilos (27.56 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo:
- Midas free-tailed bat
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Sambar deer
- Jentink’s duiker
- Oecomys concolor
- Tickell’s bat
- Big-eared flying fox
- Highland brush mouse
- Olive colobus
- Eastern falanouc
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo:
- Thorold’s deer with an average maximal age of 18 years
- European rabbit with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Black-fronted duiker with an average maximal age of 19.67 years
- Siberian ibex with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Large Indian civet with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Eurasian otter with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Asian golden cat with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Short-beaked common dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Common vampire bat with an average maximal age of 19.5 years