It is hard to guess what a Chacoan peccary weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) on average weights 35.38 kg (78.01 lbs).
The Chacoan peccary is from the family Tayassuidae (genus: Catagonus). It is usually born with about 600 grams (1.32 lbs). They can live for up to 9 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.03 meter (3′ 5″). Usually, Chacoan peccarys have 2 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 peccary or tagua (Catagonus wagneri) is the last extant species of the genus Catagonus; it is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. Approximately 3,000 remain in the world. It is believed to be the closest living relative to the extinct genus Platygonus.The Chacoan peccary has the unusual distinction of having been first described in 1930 based on fossils and was originally thought to be an extinct species. In 1971, the animal was discovered to still be alive in the Chaco region, in the Argentine province of Salta. The species was well known to the native people, but it took a while for scientists to acknowledge its existence. It is known locally as the tagua.
Animals of the same family as a Chacoan peccary
We found other animals of the Tayassuidae family:
- Collared peccary bringing 21.19 kilos (46.72 lbs) to the scale
- White-lipped peccary bringing 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Chacoan peccary
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Catagonus wagneri:
- Himalayan goral with a weight of 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs)
- Thylacine with a weight of 30 kilos (66.14 lbs)
- Blackbuck with a weight of 36.1 kilos (79.59 lbs)
- Mountain reedbuck with a weight of 29.2 kilos (64.37 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- Giant anteater with a weight of 28.72 kilos (63.32 lbs)
- Dwarf blue sheep with a weight of 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs)
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Giant armadillo with a weight of 41.33 kilos (91.12 lbs)
- Red gazelle with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Chacoan peccary
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chacoan peccary:
- African wild dog with a size of 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Wolf with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Goa (antelope) with a size of 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 91.8 cm (3′ 1″)
- White-lipped peccary with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Black duiker with a size of 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chacoan peccary
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Chacoan peccary:
- Indian crested porcupine
- Jungle cat
- Pouched gerbil
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- White-lipped tamarin
- Duthie’s golden mole
- False water rat
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Cameroon clawless otter
- European snow vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Chacoan peccary
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Chacoan peccary:
- Black dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Oncilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Pacarana with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Snowshoe hare with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Jamaican coney with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.33 years