It is hard to guess what a Lowlands tree-kangaroo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lowlands tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus spadix) on average weights 8.47 kg (18.67 lbs).
The Lowlands tree-kangaroo is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dendrolagus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.3 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Lowlands 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.
The lowlands tree-kangaroo or lowland tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus spadix) is a species of tree-kangaroo in the family Macropodidae.The marsupial is endemic to the Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests ecoregion in southwestern Papua New Guinea, on New Guinea island.ConservationDendrolagus spadix is an IUCN Red List Vulnerable species, threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Parma wallaby bringing 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs) to the scale
- Gray dorcopsis bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Black wallaroo bringing 17 kilos (37.48 lbs) to the scale
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Allied rock-wallaby bringing 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs) to the scale
- Red kangaroo bringing 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Quokka bringing 3.03 kilos (6.68 lbs) to the scale
- Common wallaroo bringing 25.99 kilos (57.3 lbs) to the scale
- Swamp wallaby bringing 15 kilos (33.07 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendrolagus spadix:
- Red-faced spider monkey with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Tenkile with a weight of 9.98 kilos (22 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus with a weight of 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs)
- Golden jackal with a weight of 9.67 kilos (21.32 lbs)
- Black colobus with a weight of 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with a weight of 7.69 kilos (16.95 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lowlands tree-kangaroo:
- Bush dog with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with a size of 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- De Brazza’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Egyptian mongoose with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- African palm civet with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Marsh mongoose with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lowlands tree-kangaroo: