What is the maximal age a Pichi reaches?
An adult Pichi (Zaedyus pichiy) usually gets as old as 9 years.
Pichis are around 61 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). As a member of the Dasypodidae family (genus: Zaedyus), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The pichi (Zaedyus pichiy), dwarf armadillo or pygmy armadillo is a armadillo native to Argentina and Chile. It is the only living member of the genus Zaedyus, and the only armadillo to hibernate.
Animals of the same family as a Pichi
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasypodidae):
- Greater fairy armadillo becoming 12 years old
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Big hairy armadillo becoming 20 years old
- Andean hairy armadillo growing to a mass of 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo becoming 18.75 years old
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Southern three-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo growing to a mass of 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Pichi
With an average age of 9 years, Pichi are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red-legged sun squirrel usually reaching 8.83 years
- Congo rope squirrel usually reaching 9.5 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel usually reaching 9.5 years
- Small Indian civet usually reaching 10.5 years
- Boodie usually reaching 10 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby usually reaching 8 years
- American mink usually reaching 10 years
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 10 years
- Fishing cat usually reaching 10 years
- Crowned lemur usually reaching 9.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Pichi
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Jungle palm squirrel
- Lundomys
- African clawless otter
- Java pipistrelle
- Crab-eating raccoon
- Little pied bat
- European pine vole
- Eastern harvest mouse
- Collie’s squirrel
- Unalaska collared lemming
Weighting as much as Pichi
A fully grown Pichi reaches around 1.49 kg (3.28 lbs). So do these animals:
- Eastern bettong weighting 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) on average
- Mongoose lemur weighting 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) on average
- Black giant squirrel weighting 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) on average
- Golden bamboo lemur weighting 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) on average
- Aquatic genet weighting 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs) on average
- Gilbert’s potoroo weighting 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) on average
- Selous’s mongoose weighting 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) on average
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) on average
- Seven-banded armadillo weighting 1.53 kilos (3.37 lbs) on average
- Reclusive ringtail possum weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Pichi
Those animals grow as big as a Pichi:
- Spotted linsang with 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Rufous elephant shrew with 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Hispaniolan hutia with 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mimic tree rat with 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western quoll with 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Koslov’s pika with 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- New Britain water rat with 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)