How big does a Hispaniolan hutia get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) reaches an average size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 9.83 years, they grow from 105 grams (0.23 lbs) to 1.27 kg (2.8 lbs). A Hispaniolan hutia has 1 babies at once. The Hispaniolan hutia (genus: Plagiodontia) is a member of the family Capromyidae.
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 Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) is one of several hutia (also called zagouti, and jutía in Spanish) species to have inhabited at some time the island of Hispaniola (island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). P. aedium is the only scientifically confirmed extant species of the genus Plagiodontia; other species are either extinct or being debatedly catalogued as P. aedium subspecies. The name Plagiodontia means “oblique tooth” in Greek.
Animals of the same family as a Hispaniolan hutia
We found other animals of the Capromyidae family:
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Jamaican coney with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Desmarest’s hutia with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Hispaniolan hutia
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hispaniolan hutia:
- Prevost’s squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown greater galago with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western quoll with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Malagasy giant rat with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose with a size of 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Meerkat with a size of 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Patagonian weasel with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hispaniolan hutia
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hispaniolan hutia:
- Pudú
- Thumbless bat
- Blue wildebeest
- Malagasy giant rat
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Taiwan vole
- Toque macaque
- African palm civet
- Müeller’s gibbon
- Ear-spot squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hispaniolan hutia
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hispaniolan hutia:
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Oncilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Congo rope squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Eastern bettong with an average maximal age of 11.75 years
- Mountain nyala with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Philippine porcupine with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hispaniolan hutia
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Plagiodontia aedium:
- Eastern quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Abyssinian genet with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Southern three-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
- Northern olingo with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Jamaican coney with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Northern brown bandicoot with a weight of 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs)
- Haussa genet with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Brown greater galago with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)