It is hard to guess what a White-striped dorcopsis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni) on average weights 5.5 kg (12.13 lbs).
The White-striped dorcopsis is from the family Macropodidae (genus: Dorcopsis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 53.8 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, White-striped 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 greater forest wallaby or white-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the northern part of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is a common species in suitable tropical forest habitat and the IUCN lists its conservation status as being of “Least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a White-striped dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Ursine tree-kangaroo bringing 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) to the scale
- Spectacled hare-wallaby bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo bringing 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs) to the scale
- Short-eared rock-wallaby bringing 4.02 kilos (8.86 lbs) to the scale
- Unadorned rock-wallaby bringing 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs) to the scale
- Tammar wallaby bringing 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs) to the scale
- Tasmanian pademelon bringing 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs) to the scale
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo bringing 12.61 kilos (27.8 lbs) to the scale
- Red-legged pademelon bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Common wallaroo bringing 25.99 kilos (57.3 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a White-striped dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsis hageni:
- Raccoon with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey with a weight of 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs)
- Mantled howler with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Red fox with a weight of 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby with a weight of 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-striped dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-striped dorcopsis:
- Northern plains gray langur with a size of 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Red-rumped agouti with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with a size of 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Corsac fox with a size of 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tonkean macaque with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bunyoro rabbit with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Brown’s pademelon with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-striped dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-striped dorcopsis: