How big does a Coruro get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Coruro (Spalacopus cyanus) reaches an average size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 6 years, they grow from 8 grams (0.02 lbs) to 101 grams (0.22 lbs). A Coruro has 3 babies at once. The Coruro (genus: Spalacopus) is a member of the family Octodontidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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:
- Mountain degu with 2 babies per litter
- Plains viscacha rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Common degu with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Moon-toothed degu with a weight of 200 grams
- Mountain viscacha rat with a weight of 124 grams
- Chilean rock rat with 3 babies per litter
- Sage’s rock rat with a weight of 96 grams
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:
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pale field rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Least chipmunk with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
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:
- Smooth-coated otter
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens
- European badger
- Common punaré
- Lesser mole-rat
- Neotropical otter
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Raccoon
- Broad-striped dasyure
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Coruro
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Coruro:
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Coruro
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spalacopus cyanus:
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- White-bellied rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Golden Oldfield mouse bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Hastings River mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale