How big does a Small dorcopsis get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Small dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus vanheurni) reaches an average size of 38.7 cm (1′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 1.89 kg (4.17 lbs). A Small dorcopsis has 1 babies at once. The Small dorcopsis (genus: Dorcopsulus) is a member of the family Macropodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The lesser forest wallaby or small dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus vanheurni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the mountainous interior of West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is less common than it used to be and the IUCN has assessed it as being “near threatened”.
Animals of the same family as a Small dorcopsis
We found other animals of the Macropodidae family:
- Tammar wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Godman’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Red-necked pademelon with 1 babies per litter
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a size of 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo with a size of 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Monjon with 1 babies per litter
- Banded hare-wallaby with 1 babies per litter
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby bringing 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs) to the scale
- Whiptail wallaby with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Small dorcopsis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small dorcopsis:
- Nine-banded armadillo with a size of 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-footed saki with a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red acouchi with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Dice’s cottontail with a size of 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Sunda stink badger with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with a size of 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- European rabbit with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Small dorcopsis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Small dorcopsis:
- Southern African vlei rat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Giant bandicoot
- Melck’s house bat
- Sulawesi rousette
- Eastern forest bat
- Pygmy tarsier
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
Animals with the same weight as a Small dorcopsis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcopsulus vanheurni:
- Selous’s mongoose with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Steppe polecat with a weight of 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum with a weight of 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
- European rabbit with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- African palm civet with a weight of 2.17 kilos (4.78 lbs)
- Gambian mongoose with a weight of 1.64 kilos (3.62 lbs)
- Tolai hare with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with a weight of 2 kilos (4.41 lbs)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)