It is hard to guess what a Bonetto’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bonetto’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bonettoi) on average weights 202 grams (0.45 lbs).
The Bonetto’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.6 cm (0′ 7″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Bonetto’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bonettoi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Bonetto’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Mottled tuco-tuco with a weight of 192 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with a weight of 327 grams
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 385 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 117 grams
- Azara’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 212 grams
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a weight of 272 grams
- Robust tuco-tuco with a weight of 249 grams
- San Luis tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bonetto’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys bonettoi:
- Collared tuco-tuco bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel bringing 241 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed phascogale bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Northeast African mole-rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Speckled dasyure bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Banks flying fox bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Cape York rat bringing 200 grams to the scale