What is the maximal age a Eastern bettong reaches?
An adult Eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) usually gets as old as 11.75 years.
Eastern bettongs 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), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. 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 eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi), also known as the Balbo (by the Ngunnawal People who used to keep them as pets), southern bettong and Tasmanian bettong, is a bettong whose natural range includes southeastern Australia and eastern Tasmania.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern bettong
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Potoroidae):
- Boodie becoming 10 years old
- Long-nosed potoroo becoming 12 years old
- Desert rat-kangaroo becoming 13 years old
- Long-footed potoroo becoming 10 years old
- Woylie becoming 6.5 years old
- Musky rat-kangaroo becoming 6 years old
- Broad-faced potoroo bringing the scale to 499 grams
- Rufous rat-kangaroo becoming 8 years old
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bettong becoming 7 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Eastern bettong
With an average age of 11.75 years, Eastern bettong are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Royal antelope usually reaching 14 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat usually reaching 10.08 years
- European polecat usually reaching 14 years
- Raccoon dog usually reaching 14 years
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 13.5 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby usually reaching 14 years
- Crab-eating fox usually reaching 11.5 years
- Malayan civet usually reaching 12 years
- Taruca usually reaching 10.58 years
- Pampas fox usually reaching 13.67 years
Animals with the same number of babies Eastern bettong
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Greater noctule bat
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- Banded hare-wallaby
- Wagner’s bonneted bat
- American bison
- Cape serotine
- Rio Beni titi
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Horse
- Mule deer
Weighting as much as Eastern bettong
A fully grown Eastern bettong reaches around 1.66 kg (3.67 lbs). So do these animals:
- Snowshoe hare weighting 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) on average
- Tree pangolin weighting 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs) on average
- Northern brown bandicoot weighting 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) on average
- Scaly-tailed possum weighting 1.81 kilos (3.99 lbs) on average
- Coppery ringtail possum weighting 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) on average
- Java mouse-deer weighting 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs) on average
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo weighting 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) on average
- Short-tailed mongoose weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur weighting 1.62 kilos (3.57 lbs) on average
- Grandidier’s mongoose weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Eastern bettong
Those animals grow as big as a Eastern bettong:
- European polecat with 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Desert cottontail with 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Sunda flying lemur with 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow mongoose with 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Kodkod with 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)