It is hard to guess what a Parma wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Parma wallaby (Macropus parma) on average weights 4.16 kg (9.17 lbs).
The Parma wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Macropus). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 87.7 cm (2′ 11″). On average, Parma wallabys can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 Parma wallaby (Macropus parma) was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of northern New South Wales (Australia), it was never commonly encountered and, even before the end of the 19th century, it was believed to be extinct. In 1965 workers on Kawau Island (near Auckland, New Zealand) trying to control a plague of introduced tammar wallabies (a widespread and fairly common species in Australia) were astonished to discover that some of the pests were not tammar wallabies, but a miraculously surviving population of Parma wallabies—a species long thought extinct. The extermination effort was put on hold while individuals were captured and sent to institutions in Australia and around the world in the hope that they would breed in captivity and could eventually be reintroduced to their native habitat.The renewed interest in the Parma wallaby soon led to another milestone: in 1967 it was found that they still existed in the forests near Gosford, New South Wales. Further investigation showed that the Parma wallaby was alive and well, and although not common, was to be found in forests along the Great Dividing Range from near Gosford almost as far north as the Queensland border.The offspring of the Kawau Island population are smaller than their fully wild relatives, even when provided with ample food: it appears that competition for limited food resources on the island selected for smaller individuals, an incipient example of the phenomenon of insular dwarfism.
Animals of the same family as a Parma wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Whiptail wallaby bringing 12.67 kilos (27.93 lbs) to the scale
- Red kangaroo bringing 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs) to the scale
- Ursine tree-kangaroo bringing 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) to the scale
- Gray dorcopsis bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Northern nail-tail wallaby bringing 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby bringing 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs) to the scale
- Quokka bringing 3.03 kilos (6.68 lbs) to the scale
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby bringing 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Tenkile bringing 9.98 kilos (22 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Parma wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macropus parma:
- Asian small-clawed otter with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a weight of 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs)
- Mona monkey with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.9 kilos (10.8 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a weight of 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- White-tailed mongoose with a weight of 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs)
- Red-legged pademelon with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Parma wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Parma wallaby:
- Lesser horseshoe bat
- Pygmy slow loris
- Giant armadillo
- Moose
- Black crested gibbon
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Big-eared flying fox
- Northern glider
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Parma wallaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Parma wallaby:
- Plains viscacha with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Plantain squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Cave myotis with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 8.58 years
- Common noctule with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Four-horned antelope with an average maximal age of 10.75 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Tasmanian devil with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Squirrel glider with an average maximal age of 12 years