It is hard to guess what a Haig’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Haig’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys haigi) on average weights 164 grams (0.36 lbs).
The Haig’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 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.
Haig’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys haigi), known regionally as the Patagonian tuco-tuco, is a South American hystricognath rodent. Like other tuco-tucos it is subterranean and thus not often observed, although the “tuc-tuc” call of the males can be heard near burrow sites, especially in early morning. Like most species in the genus Ctenomys, C. haigi are solitary, with one adult per burrow.Haig’s tuco-tuco is native to Argentine Patagonia. Its primary habitat is the Patagonian steppe, but it is also found in the Low Monte and Valdivian temperate rain forest ecoregions.
Animals of the same family as a Haig’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 192 grams
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a weight of 272 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco with a weight of 141 grams
- Strong tuco-tuco with a weight of 233 grams
- Azara’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 385 grams
- Mottled tuco-tuco with a weight of 192 grams
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Argentine tuco-tuco with a weight of 221 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Haig’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys haigi:
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Javanese flying squirrel bringing 156 grams to the scale
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s rock rat bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Haig’s tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Haig’s tuco-tuco:
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater stick-nest rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Himalayan pika with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)