It is hard to guess what a Bridges’s degu weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bridges’s degu (Octodon bridgesi) on average weights 162 grams (0.36 lbs).
The Bridges’s degu is from the family Octodontidae (genus: Octodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.9 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.
Bridges’s degu (Octodon bridgesi) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae. It is found in Argentina and Chile, most typically in southern Chile. The species was named after Thomas Bridges.
Animals of the same family as a Bridges’s degu
We found other animals of the Octodontidae family:
- Plains viscacha rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Moon-toothed degu with a weight of 200 grams
- Common degu with a weight of 203 grams
- Coruro with a weight of 101 grams
- Sage’s rock rat with a weight of 96 grams
- Mountain viscacha rat with a weight of 124 grams
- Mountain degu with a weight of 154 grams
- Chilean rock rat with a weight of 130 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bridges’s degu
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Octodon bridgesi:
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Talas tuco-tuco bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Pale field rat bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Attwater’s pocket gopher bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Bolivian chinchilla rat bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bridges’s degu
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bridges’s degu:
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)