It is hard to guess what a Small dorcopsis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus vanheurni) on average weights 1.89 kg (4.17 lbs).
The Small dorcopsis is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dorcopsulus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 38.7 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Small dorcopsiss 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 lesser forest wallaby or small dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus vanheurni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the mountainous interior of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is less common than it used to be and the IUCN has assessed it as being “near threatened”.
Animals of the same family as a Small dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Spectacled hare-wallaby bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
- Western brush wallaby bringing 8 kilos (17.64 lbs) to the scale
- Brown dorcopsis bringing 5.39 kilos (11.88 lbs) to the scale
- Swamp wallaby bringing 15 kilos (33.07 lbs) to the scale
- Nabarlek bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Toolache wallaby bringing 10 kilos (22.05 lbs) to the scale
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby bringing 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs) to the scale
- Ursine tree-kangaroo bringing 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) to the scale
- Dingiso bringing 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs) to the scale
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo bringing 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Small dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsulus vanheurni:
- Banded hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.94 kilos (4.28 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus with a weight of 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum with a weight of 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with a weight of 2 kilos (4.41 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Liberian mongoose with a weight of 1.82 kilos (4.01 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Small dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small dorcopsis:
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Olive colobus with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-nosed saki with a size of 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pale fox with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern olingo with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- European polecat with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Red acouchi with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cape gray mongoose with a size of 35 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Small dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Small dorcopsis: