What is the maximal age a Black dorcopsis reaches?
An adult Black dorcopsis (Dorcopsis atrata) usually gets as old as 8 years.
When born, they weight 579 grams (1.28 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Dorcopsis), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 59.2 cm (2′ 0″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The black dorcopsis or black forest wallaby (Dorcopsis atrata) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to an island at the eastern end of New Guinea where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and hunting, its population is declining and the IUCN lists it as being “Critically endangered”.
Animals of the same family as a Black dorcopsis
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Macropodidae):
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tammar wallaby becoming 14 years old
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-legged pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Quokka becoming 12 years old
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown’s pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western grey kangaroo becoming 20 years old
- Monjon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled hare-wallaby becoming 6 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Black dorcopsis
With an average age of 8 years, Black dorcopsis are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Mongolian gazelle usually reaching 7 years
- Kowari usually reaching 7 years
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 9.5 years
- Common degu usually reaching 7.08 years
- Moonrat usually reaching 7 years
- Marbled polecat usually reaching 8.92 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel usually reaching 7.08 years
- Cape gray mongoose usually reaching 8.67 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle usually reaching 8 years
- Plantain squirrel usually reaching 9.58 years
Animals with the same number of babies Black dorcopsis
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Potto
- Pygmy tarsier
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Northern nail-tail wallaby
- Southern tree hyrax
- De Brazza’s monkey
- Delicate mouse
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Hooded seal
Weighting as much as Black dorcopsis
A fully grown Black dorcopsis reaches around 6.2 kg (13.67 lbs). So do these animals:
- Sulawesi palm civet weighting 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs) on average
- Tasmanian pademelon weighting 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs) on average
- Sun-tailed monkey weighting 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs) on average
- Hoolock gibbon weighting 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs) on average
- White-striped dorcopsis weighting 5.5 kilos (12.13 lbs) on average
- Black crested gibbon weighting 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs) on average
- Hose’s langur weighting 6.29 kilos (13.87 lbs) on average
- Peruvian spider monkey weighting 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs) on average
- Zanzibar red colobus weighting 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) on average
- Javan surili weighting 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Black dorcopsis
Those animals grow as big as a Black dorcopsis:
- Jaguarundi with 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Suni with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Cape genet with 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black crested mangabey with 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tibetan macaque with 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pygmy hog with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Kloss’s gibbon with 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Asian small-clawed otter with 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)