It is hard to guess what a Bahamian hutia weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) on average weights 912 grams (2.01 lbs).
The Bahamian hutia is from the family Capromyidae (genus: Geocapromys). It is usually born with about 76 grams (0.17 lbs). They can live for up to 6 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 39.5 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Bahamian hutias have 1 babies per litter.
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.
The Bahamian hutia or Ingraham’s hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) is a species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. Geocapromys ingrahami is endemic to the Bahamas. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Bahamian hutia
We found other animals of the Capromyidae family:
- Hispaniolan hutia bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Desmarest’s hutia bringing 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs) to the scale
- Jamaican coney bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Little Swan Island hutia bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Bahamian hutia
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geocapromys ingrahami:
- North African hedgehog bringing 931 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded flying fox bringing 872 grams to the scale
- Japanese marten with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Desert cottontail bringing 882 grams to the scale
- Montane guinea pig with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Eastern barred bandicoot bringing 903 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Western woolly lemur bringing 828 grams to the scale
- Hoffmanns’s titi with a weight of 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’ sportive lemur bringing 822 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bahamian hutia
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bahamian hutia:
- Tufted capuchin with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Lutrine opossum with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey with a size of 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mexican prairie dog with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with a size of 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common kusimanse with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Burmese ferret-badger with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mountain cuscus with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Clara’s echymipera with a size of 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Aquatic genet with a size of 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bahamian hutia
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bahamian hutia:
- Sangihe tarsier
- Eld’s deer
- African pygmy squirrel
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Red-eared guenon
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- North Atlantic right whale
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Grant’s gazelle
- Black-spotted cuscus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bahamian hutia
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bahamian hutia:
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- California ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.83 years