What is the maximal age a Tasmanian pademelon reaches?
An adult Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii) usually gets as old as 10 years.
Tasmanian pademelons are around 30 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 119 grams (0.26 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). As a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Thylogale), a Tasmanian pademelon caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii), also known as the rufous-bellied pademelon or red-bellied pademelon, is the sole species of pademelon found in Tasmania, and was formerly found throughout south-eastern Australia. This pademelon has developed heavier and bushier fur than its northern relatives, who inhabit northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.Males reach around 7 kg (15.4 lbs) in weight, 1–1.2 metres in length including the tail, and are considerably larger than the females, which average 4 kg (8.8 lbs).
Animals of the same family as a Tasmanian pademelon
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Macropodidae):
- Quokka becoming 12 years old
- Allied rock-wallaby becoming 13 years old
- Ursine tree-kangaroo becoming 20.17 years old
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby becoming 14.33 years old
- Dingiso growing to a mass of 9.4 kgs (20.72 lbs)
- Black wallaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Parma wallaby becoming 10 years old
- White-striped dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Whiptail wallaby becoming 14 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Tasmanian pademelon
With an average age of 10 years, Tasmanian pademelon are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Pallid bat usually reaching 9.08 years
- Black giant squirrel usually reaching 10.08 years
- Brown palm civet usually reaching 12 years
- Coypu usually reaching 12 years
- Silver-haired bat usually reaching 12 years
- Speke’s pectinator usually reaching 10 years
- Agile wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat usually reaching 10 years
- Red squirrel usually reaching 12 years
- Little pocket mouse usually reaching 8.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Tasmanian pademelon
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Striped bandicoot
- Pennant’s colobus
- Spotted giant flying squirrel
- Malagasy giant rat
- Thorold’s deer
- Japanese serow
- Whiskered bat
- Yellow-backed duiker
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Townsend’s big-eared bat
Weighting as much as Tasmanian pademelon
A fully grown Tasmanian pademelon reaches around 5.85 kg (12.9 lbs). So do these animals:
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka weighting 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs) on average
- Preuss’s monkey weighting 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs) on average
- White-thighed surili weighting 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs) on average
- Black-crested Sumatran langur weighting 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) on average
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby weighting 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) on average
- Red-necked pademelon weighting 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs) on average
- Desmarest’s hutia weighting 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs) on average
- Greater mouse-deer weighting 5.25 kilos (11.57 lbs) on average
- Giant bandicoot weighting 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) on average
- Red fox weighting 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs) on average