It is hard to guess what a Giant armadillo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) on average weights 41.33 kg (91.11 lbs).
The Giant armadillo is from the family Dasypodidae (genus: Priodontes). It is usually born with about 113 grams (0.25 lbs). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 87.4 cm (2′ 11″). Usually, Giant armadillos have 1 babies per litter.
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.
The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially tatou, ocarro, tatu-canastra or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo (although their extinct relatives, the glyptodonts, were much larger). It lives in South America, ranging throughout as far south as northern Argentina. This species is considered vulnerable to extinction.The giant armadillo prefers termites and some ants as prey, and often consumes the entire population of a termite mound. It also has been known to prey upon worms, larvae and larger creatures, such as spiders and snakes, and plants.At least one zoo park, in Villavicencio, Colombia – Los Ocarros – is dedicated to this animal.
Animals of the same family as a Giant armadillo
We found other animals of the Dasypodidae family:
- Seven-banded armadillo bringing 1.53 kilos (3.37 lbs) to the scale
- Screaming hairy armadillo with a weight of 930 grams
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo bringing 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo with a weight of 129 grams
- Big hairy armadillo bringing 4.46 kilos (9.83 lbs) to the scale
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo bringing 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs) to the scale
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo bringing 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs) to the scale
- Greater long-nosed armadillo bringing 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs) to the scale
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo bringing 3.74 kilos (8.25 lbs) to the scale
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo bringing 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Giant armadillo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Priodontes maximus:
- Vicuña with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Giant muntjac with a weight of 36.69 kilos (80.89 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary with a weight of 35.38 kilos (78 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a weight of 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- Gerenuk with a weight of 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs)
- Tucuxi with a weight of 42.82 kilos (94.4 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Giant armadillo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Giant armadillo:
- African wild dog with a size of 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Four-horned antelope with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Dorcas gazelle with a size of 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Pacarana with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Black snub-nosed monkey with a size of 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Giant armadillo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Giant armadillo:
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Bactrian camel
- Northern viscacha
- Pig-tailed langur
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Common duiker
- Southern tree hyrax
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Giant armadillo
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Giant armadillo:
- Masked palm civet with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Urial with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Common duiker with an average maximal age of 14.25 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Hog badger with an average maximal age of 13.92 years
- North American porcupine with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Northern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Commerson’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 18 years
- European badger with an average maximal age of 16.17 years