It is hard to guess what a Brown’s pademelon weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown’s pademelon (Thylogale browni) on average weights 5.48 kg (12.08 lbs).
The Brown’s pademelon is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Thylogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Brown’s pademelons 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.
Brown’s pademelon (Thylogale browni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Brown’s pademelon
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby bringing 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs) to the scale
- Gray dorcopsis bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Black dorcopsis bringing 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs) to the scale
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs) to the scale
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo bringing 12.61 kilos (27.8 lbs) to the scale
- Tenkile bringing 9.98 kilos (22 lbs) to the scale
- Unadorned rock-wallaby bringing 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs) to the scale
- Allied rock-wallaby bringing 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs) to the scale
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo bringing 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs) to the scale
- Godman’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Brown’s pademelon
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylogale browni:
- Kit fox with a weight of 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Hose’s langur with a weight of 6.29 kilos (13.87 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin with a weight of 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo with a weight of 4.76 kilos (10.49 lbs)
- Arctic hare with a weight of 4.42 kilos (9.74 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs)
- Maroon leaf monkey with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown’s pademelon
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown’s pademelon:
- Peruvian spider monkey with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Raccoon dog with a size of 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-rumped agouti with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-shanked douc with a size of 60.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Barbary macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern river otter with a size of 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown’s pademelon
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Brown’s pademelon: