What is the maximal age a Boodie reaches?
An adult Boodie (Bettongia lesueur) usually gets as old as 10 years.
Boodies are around 21 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Bettongia), a Boodie caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 3 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 33.1 cm (1′ 2″).
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 boodie (Bettongia lesueur), also known as the burrowing bettong, or Lesueur’s rat-kangaroo, is a small marsupial. Its population is an example of the effects of introduced animals on Australian fauna and ecosystems. Once the most common macropodiform mammal on the whole continent, the boodie now only lives on off-lying islands and in a newly introduced population on the mainland at Shark Bay. This animal, first collected during an 1817 French expedition of the west coast, was named after Charles Lesueur, an artist and naturalist who accompanied a previous French expedition.
Animals of the same family as a Boodie
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Potoroidae):
- Desert rat-kangaroo becoming 13 years old
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-faced potoroo bringing the scale to 499 grams
- Musky rat-kangaroo becoming 6 years old
- Eastern bettong becoming 11.75 years old
- Rufous rat-kangaroo becoming 8 years old
- Woylie becoming 6.5 years old
- Northern bettong becoming 7 years old
- Long-nosed potoroo becoming 12 years old
- Long-footed potoroo becoming 10 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Boodie
With an average age of 10 years, Boodie are in good companionship of the following animals:
- White-footed sportive lemur usually reaching 8.58 years
- Banded linsang usually reaching 10.67 years
- Parma wallaby usually reaching 10 years
- Barbary ground squirrel usually reaching 9 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew usually reaching 8.75 years
- Mountain nyala usually reaching 11 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat usually reaching 10 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Muskrat usually reaching 10 years
- Blanford’s fox usually reaching 10 years
Animals with the same number of babies Boodie
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Northern glider
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat
- Goldman’s woodrat
- Large flying fox
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Western long-beaked echidna
- Moose
- Chiapan deer mouse
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Weighting as much as Boodie
A fully grown Boodie reaches around 1.45 kg (3.19 lbs). So do these animals:
- Red acouchi weighting 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs) on average
- De Vis’s woolly rat weighting 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) on average
- Common kusimanse weighting 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) on average
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting 1.37 kilos (3.02 lbs) on average
- Silvery greater galago weighting 1.58 kilos (3.48 lbs) on average
- Gambian mongoose weighting 1.64 kilos (3.62 lbs) on average
- Marsh rabbit weighting 1.36 kilos (3 lbs) on average
- Brown greater galago weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
- Northern bettong weighting 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) on average
- Indian grey mongoose weighting 1.31 kilos (2.89 lbs) on average