It is hard to guess what a Woylie weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woylie (Bettongia penicillata) on average weights 1.22 kg (2.69 lbs).
The Woylie is from the family Potoroidae (genus: Bettongia). They can live for up to 6.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33.1 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Woylies can have babies 3 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 woylie or brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata) is an extremely rare, small marsupial, belonging to the genus Bettongia, that is endemic to Australia. There are two subspecies: B. p. ogilbyi, and the now extinct B. p. penicillata.
Animals of the same family as a Woylie
We found other animals of the Potoroidae family:
- Eastern bettong bringing 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) to the scale
- Gilbert’s potoroo bringing 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) to the scale
- Desert rat-kangaroo with a weight of 929 grams
- Long-footed potoroo bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Musky rat-kangaroo with a weight of 535 grams
- Northern bettong bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo with a weight of 499 grams
- Rufous rat-kangaroo bringing 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs) to the scale
- Boodie bringing 1.45 kilos (3.2 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed potoroo bringing 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Woylie
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bettongia penicillata:
- Abyssinian genet with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Greater bilby with a weight of 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail with a weight of 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs)
- Lesser grison with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Nabarlek with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Malagasy giant rat with a weight of 1.18 kilos (2.6 lbs)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel with a weight of 1.33 kilos (2.93 lbs)
- Japanese marten with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woylie
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Woylie:
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Red acouchi
- Sunda flying lemur
- White-footed sportive lemur
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Three-striped night monkey
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Red-bellied titi
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woylie
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woylie:
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Mexican mouse opossum with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Greater grison with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Woodland dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Mountain degu with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Least chipmunk with an average maximal age of 6.25 years