It is hard to guess what a Tammar wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) on average weights 5.28 kg (11.64 lbs).
The Tammar wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Macropus). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.6 cm (2′ 2″). On average, Tammar 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 tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod native to South and Western Australia. Though its geographical range has been severely reduced since European colonization, the tammar remains common within its reduced range and is listed as “Least Concern” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It has been introduced to New Zealand and reintroduced to some areas of Australia where it had been previously eradicated. Skull differences distinguish tammars from Western Australia, Kangaroo Island, and mainland South Australia, making them distinct population groups or possibly different subspecies.The tammar is among the smallest of the wallabies in the genus Macropus. Its coat color is largely grey. The tammar has several notable adaptations, including the ability to retain energy while hopping, color vision, and the ability to drink seawater. A nocturnal species, it spends nighttime in grassland habitat and daytime in shrubland. It is also very gregarious and has a seasonal, promiscuous mating pattern. A female tammar can nurse a joey in her pouch while keeping an embryo in her uterus. The tammar is a model species for research on marsupials, and on mammals in general. It is one of many organisms to have had its genome sequenced.
Animals of the same family as a Tammar wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- 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
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Tasmanian pademelon bringing 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs) to the scale
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs) to the scale
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby bringing 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs) to the scale
- Brown’s pademelon bringing 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs) to the scale
- Dingiso bringing 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs) to the scale
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby bringing 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) to the scale
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo bringing 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Tammar wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macropus eugenii:
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)
- Gray dorcopsis with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Red-necked pademelon with a weight of 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat with a weight of 5.49 kilos (12.1 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey with a weight of 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis with a weight of 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs)
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tammar wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tammar wallaby:
- Northern brushtail possum
- Blyth’s vole
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Red bush squirrel
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Hamadryas baboon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tammar wallaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tammar wallaby:
- L’Hoest’s monkey with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Australian sea lion with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- La Plata dolphin with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Yellow-throated marten with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 12 years