It is hard to guess what a Coruro weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Coruro (Spalacopus cyanus) on average weights 101 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Coruro is from the family Octodontidae (genus: Spalacopus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 6 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Coruros have 3 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 coruro (Spalacopus cyanus) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae. It is monotypic within the genus Spalacopus. The species is endemic to central Chile, where it has been found in a wide variety of habitats, from coastal to montane. It is fossorial and lives in colonies.
Animals of the same family as a Coruro
We found other animals of the Octodontidae family:
- Common degu with a weight of 203 grams
- Chilean rock rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Mountain viscacha rat with a weight of 124 grams
- Mountain degu with a weight of 154 grams
- Moon-toothed degu with a weight of 200 grams
- Plains viscacha rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Sage’s rock rat with a weight of 96 grams
- Bridges’s degu with a weight of 162 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Coruro
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spalacopus cyanus:
- Desert kangaroo rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Sugar glider bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Roman mole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Big bonneted bat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Goliath shrew bringing 87 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Coruro
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Coruro:
- Plains rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-tailed gymnure with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Coruro
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Coruro:
- Beech marten
- Acacia rat
- Bicolored shrew
- European pine marten
- Russian desman
- Northern collared lemming
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Yarkand hare
- Kemp’s gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Coruro
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Coruro:
- Eastern quoll with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Musky rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Tailless tenrec with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 6.33 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Plains pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 7.17 years