It is hard to guess what a Boodie weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Boodie (Bettongia lesueur) on average weights 1.45 kg (3.19 lbs).
The Boodie is from the family Potoroidae (genus: Bettongia). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33.1 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Boodies can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 boodie (Bettongia lesueur), also known as the burrowing bettong, or Lesueur’s rat-kangaroo, is a small marsupial. Its population is an example of the effects of introduced animals on Australian fauna and ecosystems. Once the most common macropodiform mammal on the whole continent, the boodie now only lives on off-lying islands and in a newly introduced population on the mainland at Shark Bay. This animal, first collected during an 1817 French expedition of the west coast, was named after Charles Lesueur, an artist and naturalist who accompanied a previous French expedition.
Animals of the same family as a Boodie
We found other animals of the Potoroidae family:
- Woylie bringing 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) to the scale
- Desert rat-kangaroo with a weight of 929 grams
- Long-footed potoroo bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Rufous rat-kangaroo bringing 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs) to the scale
- Northern bettong bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Musky rat-kangaroo with a weight of 535 grams
- Gilbert’s potoroo bringing 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo with a weight of 499 grams
- Long-nosed potoroo bringing 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern bettong bringing 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Boodie
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bettongia lesueur:
- Indian giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo with a weight of 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Chinese hare with a weight of 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs)
- Southern viscacha with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Pichi with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Northern bettong with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Sable with a weight of 1.17 kilos (2.58 lbs)
- Tree pangolin with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Boodie
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Boodie:
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Little forest bat
- Tibetan antelope
- Walia ibex
- Ground cuscus
- Painted ringtail possum
- Dian’s tarsier
- Short-eared possum
- Gould’s long-eared bat
- Usambara shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Boodie
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Boodie:
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Little pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- White-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fishing cat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Jamaican coney with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Saiga antelope with an average maximal age of 12 years
- American mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Short-eared dog with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with an average maximal age of 12 years