It is hard to guess what a Chacoan mara weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chacoan mara (Dolichotis salinicola) on average weights 1.61 kg (3.55 lbs).
The Chacoan mara is from the family Caviidae (genus: Dolichotis). It is usually born with about 199 grams (0.44 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 66.4 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Chacoan maras 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 Chacoan mara (Dolichotis salinicola) is a relatively large South American rodent of the cavy family. They are a close relative of the better known Patagonian mara.
Animals of the same family as a Chacoan mara
We found other animals of the Caviidae family:
- Rock cavy with a weight of 800 grams
- Montane guinea pig bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Capybara bringing 48.14 kilos (106.13 lbs) to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with a weight of 361 grams
- Lesser capybara bringing 21.27 kilos (46.89 lbs) to the scale
- Patagonian mara bringing 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs) to the scale
- Brazilian guinea pig with a weight of 524 grams
- Southern mountain cavy with a weight of 261 grams
- Guinea pig with a weight of 728 grams
- Andean mountain cavy with a weight of 255 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chacoan mara
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dolichotis salinicola:
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Manchurian hare with a weight of 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs)
- Seven-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.53 kilos (3.37 lbs)
- Silvery greater galago with a weight of 1.58 kilos (3.48 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Nabarlek with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Southern viscacha with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Steppe polecat with a weight of 1.69 kilos (3.73 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chacoan mara
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Chacoan mara: