It is hard to guess what a Long-footed potoroo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) on average weights 1.84 kg (4.05 lbs).
The Long-footed potoroo is from the family Potoroidae (genus: Potorous). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.9 cm (1′ 3″). Usually, Long-footed potoroos 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.
Long-footed potoroo – Potorous longipes – is a small marsupial found in southeastern Australia, restricted to an area around the coastal border between New South Wales and Victoria. It was discovered in 1967 when an adult male was caught in a dog trap in the forest southwest of Bonang, Victoria. It is classified as vulnerable.Potorous longipes is the largest species of Potorous, resembling the long-nosed Potorous tridactylus. It is a solitary nocturnal creature, feeding on fungi, vegetation and small invertebrates. It differs from the P. tridactylus in its larger feet and longer tail.Current threats to the species include predation by introduced feral cats and foxes, as well as logging within its limited range.
Animals of the same family as a Long-footed potoroo
We found other animals of the Potoroidae family:
- Northern bettong bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo with a weight of 499 grams
- Eastern bettong bringing 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed potoroo bringing 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) to the scale
- Boodie bringing 1.45 kilos (3.2 lbs) to the scale
- Desert rat-kangaroo with a weight of 929 grams
- Musky rat-kangaroo with a weight of 535 grams
- Woylie bringing 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) to the scale
- Rufous rat-kangaroo bringing 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs) to the scale
- Gilbert’s potoroo bringing 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Long-footed potoroo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Potorous longipes:
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with a weight of 1.72 kilos (3.79 lbs)
- Pichi with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Striped hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.01 kilos (4.43 lbs)
- Monk saki with a weight of 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs)
- Beech marten with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- Back-striped weasel with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a weight of 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs)
- Red-bellied lemur with a weight of 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs)
- Small dorcopsis with a weight of 1.89 kilos (4.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Long-footed potoroo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-footed potoroo:
- Mountain cottontail with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Blanford’s fox with a size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black bearded saki with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-footed tree-rat with a size of 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-footed potoroo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Long-footed potoroo:
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Shining thicket rat
- Spotted giant flying squirrel
- Black squirrel monkey
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Sea otter
- Big free-tailed bat
- Ursine tree-kangaroo
- Smoky pocket gopher
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-footed potoroo
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-footed potoroo:
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Southern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Eastern bettong with an average maximal age of 11.75 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years