It is hard to guess what a Brown dorcopsis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri) on average weights 5.39 kg (11.88 lbs).
The Brown dorcopsis is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dorcopsis). They can live for up to 7.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.9 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Brown dorcopsiss 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 brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri), also known as the brown forest wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to the lowlands of West New Guinea and the nearby Indonesian islands in West Papua of Misool, Salawati, and Yapen.
Animals of the same family as a Brown dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Parma wallaby bringing 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs) to the scale
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo bringing 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs) to the scale
- Unadorned rock-wallaby bringing 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs) to the scale
- Macleay’s dorcopsis bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern hare-wallaby bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Black dorcopsis bringing 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs) to the scale
- Dingiso bringing 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs) to the scale
- Small dorcopsis bringing 1.89 kilos (4.17 lbs) to the scale
- Black wallaroo bringing 17 kilos (37.48 lbs) to the scale
- Allied rock-wallaby bringing 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Brown dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis muelleri:
- Black-spotted cuscus with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Black howler with a weight of 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs)
- Brown woolly monkey with a weight of 6.27 kilos (13.82 lbs)
- Mentawai langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with a weight of 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs)
- Diana monkey with a weight of 4.36 kilos (9.61 lbs)
- Red fox with a weight of 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown dorcopsis:
- European badger with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Gee’s golden langur with a size of 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Mantled guereza with a size of 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pacarana with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tenkile with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Patagonian mara with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Brown dorcopsis:
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Agile wallaby
- Heart-nosed bat
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
- Arabian oryx
- Blackbuck
- Muskox
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
- South American tapir
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown dorcopsis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown dorcopsis:
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Chacoan peccary with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Black-shouldered opossum with an average maximal age of 7.83 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Eastern mole with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years