How many baby Talas tuco-tucos are in a litter?
A Talas tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 102 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Ctenomyidae family (genus: Ctenomys). An adult Talas 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 Talas tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) is a species of tuco-tuco endemic to eastern Argentina.
Other animals of the family Ctenomyidae
Talas tuco-tuco is a member of the Ctenomyidae, as are these animals:
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting only 400 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco weighting only 400 grams
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco weighting only 400 grams
- White-toothed tuco-tuco weighting only 244 grams
- Southern tuco-tuco weighting only 403 grams
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco weighting only 385 grams
- Magellanic tuco-tuco weighting only 272 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco weighting only 179 grams
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco weighting only 400 grams
- Reddish tuco-tuco weighting only 173 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Talas tuco-tuco
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Pallas’s cat
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Utah prairie dog
- Gray four-eyed opossum
- Caucasian squirrel
- Lesser capybara
- Bank vole
- Turkestan rat
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Tamarisk jird
Animals that get as old as a Talas tuco-tuco
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 3 years
- Southern bog lemming with 2.5 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 2.67 years
- Highland streaked tenrec with 2.58 years
- Silvery mole-rat with 3.08 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 3.5 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
- Common vole with 3 years
- Alpine pika with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Talas tuco-tuco
What other animals weight around 141 grams (0.31 lbs)?
- Greater Egyptian jerboa weighting 138 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Sanborn’s squirrel weighting 136 grams
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel weighting 118 grams
- Maxomys baeodon weighting 159 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird weighting 117 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat weighting 164 grams
- Fossorial giant rat weighting 168 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 122 grams