It is hard to guess what a Eastern bettong weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) on average weights 1.66 kg (3.67 lbs).
The Eastern bettong is from the family Potoroidae (genus: Bettongia). They can live for up to 11.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33.1 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Eastern bettongs 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 eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi), also known as the Balbo (by the Ngunnawal People who used to keep them as pets), southern bettong and Tasmanian bettong, is a bettong whose natural range includes southeastern Australia and eastern Tasmania.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern bettong
We found other animals of the Potoroidae family:
- Musky rat-kangaroo with a weight of 535 grams
- Woylie bringing 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) to the scale
- Gilbert’s potoroo bringing 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) to the scale
- Boodie bringing 1.45 kilos (3.2 lbs) to the scale
- Long-footed potoroo bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo with a weight of 499 grams
- Northern bettong bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Desert rat-kangaroo with a weight of 929 grams
- Rufous rat-kangaroo bringing 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed potoroo bringing 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern bettong
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bettongia gaimardi:
- Southern viscacha with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Banded hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.94 kilos (4.28 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted cat with a weight of 1.42 kilos (3.13 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea with a weight of 1.34 kilos (2.95 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Island fox with a weight of 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eastern bettong
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern bettong:
- Bronze quoll with a size of 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Utah prairie dog with a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Nasuella olivacea with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Yarkand hare with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Palawan stink badger with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Kodkod with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern bettong
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Eastern bettong:
- Mantled guereza
- Ground pangolin
- Northern greater galago
- Red-legged pademelon
- Squirrel glider
- Common brushtail possum
- Cape elephant shrew
- Grévy’s zebra
- François’ langur
- African palm civet
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern bettong
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern bettong:
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Muskrat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bat-eared fox with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Jungle cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fisher (animal) with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years