What is the maximal age a Quokka reaches?
An adult Quokka (Setonix brachyurus) usually gets as old as 12 years.
Quokkas are around 27 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 24 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Setonix), a Quokka caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 quokka () (Setonix brachyurus), the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal.Quokkas are found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island, just off Perth, and also Bald Island near Albany, and in isolated, scattered populations in forest and coastal heath between Perth and Albany. A small colony exists at the eastern limit of their range in a protected area of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, where they co-exist with the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo.
Animals of the same family as a Quokka
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Macropodidae):
- Black-striped wallaby becoming 15 years old
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby becoming 12 years old
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common wallaroo becoming 24 years old
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby growing to a mass of 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo becoming 8 years old
- Tenkile with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby becoming 14.33 years old
- Red-necked wallaby becoming 19 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Quokka
With an average age of 12 years, Quokka are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Greater false vampire bat usually reaching 14 years
- Blue duiker usually reaching 12 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon usually reaching 11.33 years
- Grey rhebok usually reaching 12.25 years
- Fishing cat usually reaching 10 years
- Jamaican fruit bat usually reaching 10 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat usually reaching 12.33 years
- Muskrat usually reaching 10 years
- Bengal fox usually reaching 10 years
- Groundhog usually reaching 10 years
Animals with the same number of babies Quokka
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Ribbon seal
- Toolache wallaby
- Western red colobus
- Banteng
- Least pipistrelle
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Guinea baboon
- Lesser kudu
- Tickell’s bat
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
Weighting as much as Quokka
A fully grown Quokka reaches around 3.03 kg (6.68 lbs). So do these animals:
- Bald uakari weighting 3.42 kilos (7.54 lbs) on average
- Sand cat weighting 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) on average
- Hispid hare weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- White-sided jackrabbit weighting 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs) on average
- Sunda stink badger weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Azara’s agouti weighting 2.98 kilos (6.57 lbs) on average
- Red-tailed monkey weighting 3.54 kilos (7.8 lbs) on average
- Tiger quoll weighting 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs) on average
- Virginia opossum weighting 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) on average
- Booted macaque weighting 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs) on average