It is hard to guess what a Chacoan tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chacoan tuco-tuco (Ctenomys dorsalis) on average weights 166 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Chacoan tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20 cm (0′ 8″).
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 tuco-tuco (Ctenomys dorsalis) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.It is endemic to Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Chacoan tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Talas tuco-tuco with a weight of 141 grams
- Emily’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 285 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Argentine tuco-tuco with a weight of 221 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco with a weight of 210 grams
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 212 grams
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 860 grams
- Azara’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chacoan tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys dorsalis:
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Striped bush squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Steppe pika bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chacoan tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chacoan tuco-tuco:
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-toed elephant shrew with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)