It is hard to guess what a Gray dorcopsis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray dorcopsis (Dorcopsis luctuosa) on average weights 4.95 kg (10.91 lbs).
The Gray dorcopsis is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dorcopsis). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 66.4 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Gray 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 gray dorcopsis or gray forest wallaby (Dorcopsis luctuosa) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Gray dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Unadorned rock-wallaby bringing 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs) to the scale
- Ursine tree-kangaroo bringing 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) to the scale
- Red kangaroo bringing 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs) to the scale
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Black-striped wallaby bringing 11.23 kilos (24.76 lbs) to the scale
- Godman’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs) to the scale
- Tammar wallaby bringing 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Gray dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis luctuosa:
- Kloss’s gibbon with a weight of 5.84 kilos (12.87 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with a weight of 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs)
- Bat-eared fox with a weight of 4.07 kilos (8.97 lbs)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer with a weight of 5.25 kilos (11.57 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Desmarest’s hutia with a weight of 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs)
- Pale-throated sloth with a weight of 4.33 kilos (9.55 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gray dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray dorcopsis:
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Cape genet with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a size of 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Cape fox with a size of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Northern plains gray langur with a size of 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gray dorcopsis:
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Sooty mangabey
- Spectral tarsier
- Little free-tailed bat
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Small flying fox
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Black-tailed hutia
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gray dorcopsis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gray dorcopsis:
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Woylie with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Striped possum with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with an average maximal age of 8 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 8.58 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 8.75 years
- Red-flanked duiker with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- White-throated woodrat with an average maximal age of 7.67 years
- Eastern cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years