It is hard to guess what a Black dwarf porcupine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black dwarf porcupine (Coendou koopmani) on average weights 3 kg (6.61 lbs).
The Black dwarf porcupine is from the family Erethizontidae (genus: Coendou). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.2 cm (1′ 2″).
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 black dwarf porcupine, also known as Koopman’s porcupine, Coendou nycthemera, is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family endemic to northern Brazil. It occurs in the Amazon rainforest east of the Madeira River and south of the Amazon River. It inhabits primary forest and possibly second growth. It was described as Coendou koopmani by Charles O. Handley Jr. and Ronald H. Pine in 1992, but was subsequently found to be identical to a species described in 1818. It is nocturnal and herbivorous.
Animals of the same family as a Black dwarf porcupine
We found other animals of the Erethizontidae family:
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 2 kilos (4.41 lbs) to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine with a weight of 832 grams
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine with a weight of 751 grams
- Rothschild’s porcupine bringing 2 kilos (4.41 lbs) to the scale
- Bahia porcupine with a weight of 999 grams
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 1.9 kilos (4.19 lbs) to the scale
- Brazilian porcupine bringing 4.12 kilos (9.08 lbs) to the scale
- North American porcupine bringing 7.42 kilos (16.36 lbs) to the scale
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine with a weight of 736 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black dwarf porcupine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Coendou koopmani:
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Sclater’s guenon with a weight of 3.07 kilos (6.77 lbs)
- Margay with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with a weight of 2.52 kilos (5.56 lbs)
- Crested agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs)
- Japanese hare with a weight of 2.53 kilos (5.58 lbs)
- Red-eared guenon with a weight of 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs)
- Bengal fox with a weight of 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin with a weight of 2.76 kilos (6.08 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black dwarf porcupine
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black dwarf porcupine:
- Volcano rabbit with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Small dorcopsis with a size of 38.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Subalpine woolly rat with a size of 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Columbian ground squirrel with a size of 29.6 cm (1′ 0″)