How many baby Peruvian tuco-tucos are in a litter?
A Peruvian tuco-tuco (Ctenomys peruanus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 120 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 18 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Ctenomyidae family (genus: Ctenomys). An adult Peruvian tuco-tuco grows up to a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Peruvian tuco-tuco (Ctenomys peruanus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Peru.
Other animals of the family Ctenomyidae
Peruvian tuco-tuco is a member of the Ctenomyidae, as are these animals:
- Tawny tuco-tuco weighting only 280 grams
- Chacoan tuco-tuco weighting only 166 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco weighting only 179 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco weighting only 235 grams
- Magellanic tuco-tuco weighting only 272 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting only 400 grams
- Haig’s tuco-tuco weighting only 164 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco weighting only 400 grams
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco weighting only 192 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Peruvian tuco-tuco
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Singing vole
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Flat-headed shrew
- Aztec mouse
- Southeastern shrew
- Cape gerbil
- Columbian ground squirrel
- Molina’s grass mouse
- Asian palm civet
Animals with the same weight as a Peruvian tuco-tuco
What other animals weight around 489 grams (1.08 lbs)?
- Desert hedgehog weighting 396 grams
- Weyland ringtail possum weighting 458 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 419 grams
- Geoffroy’s tamarin weighting 493 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin weighting 573 grams
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat weighting 394 grams
- Eastern spotted skunk weighting 568 grams
- European hamster weighting 429 grams
- Short-tailed chinchilla weighting 500 grams
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting 499 grams
Animals with the same size as a Peruvian tuco-tuco
Also reaching around 23.8 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Northern glider gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-shouldered opossum gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-tailed antsangy gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red bush squirrel gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hammer-headed bat gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Unstriped ground squirrel gets as big as 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)