What is the maximal age a Woylie reaches?
An adult Woylie (Bettongia penicillata) usually gets as old as 6.5 years.
Woylies are around 20 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 Woylie 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 woylie or brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata) is an extremely rare, small marsupial, belonging to the genus Bettongia, that is endemic to Australia. There are two subspecies: B. p. ogilbyi, and the now extinct B. p. penicillata.
Animals of the same family as a Woylie
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Potoroidae):
- Musky rat-kangaroo becoming 6 years old
- Desert rat-kangaroo becoming 13 years old
- Broad-faced potoroo bringing the scale to 499 grams
- Eastern bettong becoming 11.75 years old
- Long-footed potoroo becoming 10 years old
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo becoming 12 years old
- Boodie becoming 10 years old
- Rufous rat-kangaroo becoming 8 years old
- Northern bettong becoming 7 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Woylie
With an average age of 6.5 years, Woylie are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Musky rat-kangaroo usually reaching 6 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot usually reaching 5.5 years
- White-throated woodrat usually reaching 7.67 years
- Long-eared hedgehog usually reaching 6.75 years
- Plains rat usually reaching 5.58 years
- House mouse usually reaching 6 years
- Northern bettong usually reaching 7 years
- Slender mongoose usually reaching 6 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel usually reaching 5.5 years
- American pika usually reaching 7 years
Animals with the same number of babies Woylie
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Siamang
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Squirrel glider
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Spectacled bear
- Black dorcopsis
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Little brown bat
Weighting as much as Woylie
A fully grown Woylie reaches around 1.22 kg (2.69 lbs). So do these animals:
- Northern viscacha weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
- Long-nosed echymipera weighting 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) on average
- Green ringtail possum weighting 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs) on average
- Abyssinian genet weighting 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) on average
- White-eared opossum weighting 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) on average
- Banded mongoose weighting 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) on average
- Northern olingo weighting 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) on average
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting 1.37 kilos (3.02 lbs) on average
- Haussa genet weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk weighting 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) on average