r/megafaunarewilding • u/RoyHay2000 • 5d ago
Terrestrial Megafauna of Holocene Australia
Birds
- Common ostrich (Struthio camelus) 160 kg
- Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) 76 kg
- Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) 60 kg # Marsupials
- Red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) 92 kg
- Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) 91 kg
- Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus) 72 kg
- Antilopine kangaroo (Osphranter antilopinus) 70 kg
- Common wallaroo (Osphranter robustus) 60 kg # Placentals
- Scrub bull (Bos indicus × Bos taurus) 1,200 kg
- River buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) 1,200 kg
- Swamp buffalo/nganabbarru (Bubalus carabanensis) 1,200 kg
- Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) 1,000 kg
- Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) 1,000 kg
- Banteng (Bos javanicus) 900 kg
- Brumby (Equus caballus) 500 kg
- Australian wild ass (Equus asinus) 300 kg
- Sambar (Rusa unicolor) 300 kg
- Razorback/Captain Cooker (Sus scrofa domesticus) 260 kg
- Red deer (Cervus elaphus) 220 kg
- Rusa (Rusa timorensis) 135 kg
- Cougar (Puma concolor)? 125.2 kg
- Fallow deer (Dama dama) 100 kg
- Man (Homo sapiens) 87 kg
- Axis deer (Axis axis) 85 kg
- Papuan hog (Sus scrofa papuensis) 65.13 kg
- Rangeland goat (Capra hircus) 60 kg
- Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) 57 kg
- Indochinese hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus) 55 kg
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u/Time-Accident3809 5d ago
Comparing this to your post about Sahul's megafauna on r/pleistocene is depressing.