It is hard to guess what a Western brush wallaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western brush wallaby (Macropus irma) on average weights 8 kg (17.64 lbs).
The Western brush wallaby is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Macropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 87.7 cm (2′ 11″). Usually, Western brush 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 western brush wallaby (Macropus irma), also known as the black-gloved wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in the southwest coastal region of Western Australia. The wallaby’s main threat is predation by the introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes). The IUCN lists the western brush wallaby as Least Concern, as it remains fairly widespread and the population is believed to be stable or increasing, as a result of fox control programs.The western brush wallaby has a grey colour with distinctive white colouring around the face, arms and legs (although it does have black gloves as its alternative common name implies). It is an unusually diurnal macropod that eats mainly grass.
Animals of the same family as a Western brush wallaby
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- White-striped dorcopsis bringing 5.5 kilos (12.13 lbs) to the scale
- Black-striped wallaby bringing 11.23 kilos (24.76 lbs) to the scale
- Unadorned rock-wallaby bringing 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs) to the scale
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby bringing 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs) to the scale
- Tammar wallaby bringing 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs) to the scale
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Gray dorcopsis bringing 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) to the scale
- Spectacled hare-wallaby bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo bringing 8.98 kilos (19.8 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Western brush wallaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macropus irma:
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)
- Aardwolf with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Silvery lutung with a weight of 7.15 kilos (15.76 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs)
- Mentawai langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Malayan civet with a weight of 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Culpeo with a weight of 8.62 kilos (19 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western brush wallaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Western brush wallaby: