It is hard to guess what a Swamp wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) on average weights 15 kg (33.07 lbs).
The Swamp wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Wallabia). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). On average, Swamp 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 swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the black wallaby, with other names including black-tailed wallaby, fern wallaby, black pademelon, stinker (in Queensland), and black stinker (in New South Wales) on account of its characteristic swampy odour. The swamp wallaby is the only living member of the genus Wallabia.
Animals of the same family as a Swamp wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Dusky pademelon bringing 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs) to the scale
- Brown’s pademelon bringing 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs) to the scale
- Antilopine kangaroo bringing 27.28 kilos (60.14 lbs) to the scale
- Allied rock-wallaby bringing 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby bringing 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs) to the scale
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo bringing 6.65 kilos (14.66 lbs) to the scale
- Unadorned rock-wallaby bringing 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs) to the scale
- Monjon bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Tenkile bringing 9.98 kilos (22 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Swamp wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Wallabia bicolor:
- Wolverine with a weight of 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs)
- Yellow baboon with a weight of 15.82 kilos (34.88 lbs)
- Mérida brocket with a weight of 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.4 kilos (36.16 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 12.27 kilos (27.05 lbs)
- Common duiker with a weight of 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf with a weight of 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer with a weight of 12.39 kilos (27.32 lbs)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a weight of 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Swamp wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Swamp wallaby:
- Indian pipistrelle
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- Dusky pademelon
- Banteng
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Speke’s gazelle
- Giant roundleaf bat
- Dugong
- Gould’s long-eared bat
- Shiny guinea pig
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Swamp wallaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Swamp wallaby:
- European rabbit with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Masked palm civet with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Arctic fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Black-footed ferret with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with an average maximal age of 17.83 years
- South American coati with an average maximal age of 17.67 years
- Nabarlek with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with an average maximal age of 12 years