It is hard to guess what a Azara’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Azara’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys azarae) on average weights 400 grams (0.88 lbs).
The Azara’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.6 cm (0′ 7″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Azara’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys azarae) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Argentina. It is named after Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.
Animals of the same family as a Azara’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a weight of 92 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco with a weight of 141 grams
- San Luis tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 212 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco with a weight of 235 grams
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 117 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with a weight of 327 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Azara’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys azarae:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur bringing 326 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
- Allen’s woodrat bringing 368 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- Mariana fruit bat bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf lemur bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum bringing 324 grams to the scale