It is hard to guess what a Proserpine rock-wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Proserpine rock-wallaby (Petrogale persephone) on average weights 5.6 kg (12.35 lbs).
The Proserpine rock-wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Petrogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 100 cm (3′ 4″). Usually, Proserpine rock-wallabys 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 Proserpine rock-wallaby (Petrogale persephone) is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to a small area in Conway National Park, Dryander National Park, Gloucester Island National Park, and around the town of Airlie Beach, all in Whitsunday Shire in Queensland, Australia. It is a threatened species, being classified by the IUCN as endangered.The Proserpine rock-wallaby is mostly grey in colour and is a timid grass-eater that rarely ventures far from rock shelter. It is distinguished from the many other rock wallabies found in northeastern Queensland by its larger size and longer tail, tipped with white. It was unknown to science until 1977, when a single individual was captured after farmers at Proserpine had spoken of a strange form of rock wallaby in the area.The Proserpine rock-wallaby is found only in a relatively intensively-settled area, but it is in competition with other more successful rock-wallaby species, which competition is probably responsible for its threatened status.
Animals of the same family as a Proserpine rock-wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Parma wallaby bringing 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs) to the scale
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo bringing 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs) to the scale
- Macleay’s dorcopsis bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Black dorcopsis bringing 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs) to the scale
- Toolache wallaby bringing 10 kilos (22.05 lbs) to the scale
- Banded hare-wallaby bringing 1.94 kilos (4.28 lbs) to the scale
- Godman’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo bringing 7.98 kilos (17.59 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern grey kangaroo bringing 33.51 kilos (73.88 lbs) to the scale
- Northern nail-tail wallaby bringing 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Proserpine rock-wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petrogale persephone:
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- White-fronted surili with a weight of 6.12 kilos (13.49 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with a weight of 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Blue monkey with a weight of 5.04 kilos (11.11 lbs)
- Red fox with a weight of 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs)
- Plains viscacha with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Proserpine rock-wallaby
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Proserpine rock-wallaby:
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 91.8 cm (3′ 1″)
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Four-horned antelope with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Buru babirusa with a size of 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 1 meter (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Proserpine rock-wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Proserpine rock-wallaby: