It is hard to guess what a Doria’s tree-kangaroo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Doria’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus) on average weights 8.98 kg (19.8 lbs).
The Doria’s tree-kangaroo is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dendrolagus). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.4 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Doria’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.
Doria’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus) is a tree-kangaroo endemic to Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby bringing 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) to the scale
- Red kangaroo bringing 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs) to the scale
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern grey kangaroo bringing 33.51 kilos (73.88 lbs) to the scale
- Gray dorcopsis bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Northern nail-tail wallaby bringing 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs) to the scale
- Brown’s pademelon bringing 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs) to the scale
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo bringing 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs) to the scale
- Tenkile bringing 9.98 kilos (22 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendrolagus dorianus:
- Honey badger with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Black colobus with a weight of 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with a weight of 7.85 kilos (17.31 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs)
- Dingiso with a weight of 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs)
- Sulawesi bear cuscus with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Fishing cat with a weight of 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Doria’s tree-kangaroo:
- Sunda pangolin with a size of 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- European hare with a size of 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Giant forest genet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Brown palm civet with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- European badger with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Japanese hare with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo:
- Madagascan rousette
- Grant’s gazelle
- Oribi
- Galápagos fur seal
- Siberian musk deer
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Parma wallaby
- Sangihe tarsier
- Steenbok
- Greater dog-like bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Doria’s tree-kangaroo:
- Brown dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 7.58 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Jamaican coney with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Dice’s cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Southern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Little pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years