It is hard to guess what a Lesser bilby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) on average weights 364 grams (0.8 lbs).
The Lesser bilby is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Macrotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). Usually, Lesser bilbys have 2 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 lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura), also known as the yallara, the lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot or the white-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, was a rabbit-like marsupial. The species was first described by Oldfield Thomas as Peregale leucura in 1887 from a single specimen from a collection of mammals of the British Museum. Reaching the size of a young rabbit, this species lived in the deserts of Central Australia. Since the 1950s–1960s, it has been believed to be extinct.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser bilby
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser bilby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macrotis leucura:
- Brown-mantled tamarin bringing 393 grams to the scale
- Mountain giant Sunda rat bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Pygmy slow loris bringing 343 grams to the scale
- Buffy-tufted marmoset bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Brown four-eyed opossum bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Black-tufted marmoset bringing 340 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser bilby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Lesser bilby: