It is hard to guess what a Bridled nail-tail wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bridled nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata) on average weights 4.95 kg (10.9 lbs).
The Bridled nail-tail wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Onychogalea). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 52.5 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Bridled nail-tail 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 bridled nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata), also known as the bridled nail-tailed wallaby, bridled nailtail wallaby, bridled wallaby, merrin, and flashjack, is a vulnerable species of macropod. It is a small wallaby found in three isolated areas in Queensland, Australia, and whose population is declining. The total population of the species is currently estimated to be less than 500 mature individuals in the wild, and 2285 in captivity.
Animals of the same family as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby bringing 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs) to the scale
- Short-eared rock-wallaby bringing 4.02 kilos (8.86 lbs) to the scale
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo bringing 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo bringing 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs) to the scale
- Western brush wallaby bringing 8 kilos (17.64 lbs) to the scale
- Agile wallaby bringing 11.86 kilos (26.15 lbs) to the scale
- Parma wallaby bringing 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs) to the scale
- Black-striped wallaby bringing 11.23 kilos (24.76 lbs) to the scale
- Western grey kangaroo bringing 25.58 kilos (56.39 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Onychogalea fraenata:
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs)
- Gray dorcopsis with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Parma wallaby with a weight of 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)
- Large-spotted civet with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- White-nosed coati with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque with a weight of 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer with a weight of 5.25 kilos (11.57 lbs)
- Desmarest’s hutia with a weight of 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bridled nail-tail wallaby:
- Giant forest genet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-eared guenon with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red-rumped agouti with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Marbled cat with a size of 51.7 cm (1′ 9″)
- South American coati with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Natal red rock hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby:
- Rufous horseshoe bat
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Chimpanzee
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Hamadryas baboon
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Collared peccary
- Lesser false vampire bat
- Van Gelder’s bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bridled nail-tail wallaby:
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bahamian hutia with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Xerus erythropus with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Woodland thicket rat with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.67 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years