It is hard to guess what a Collared tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Collared tuco-tuco (Ctenomys torquatus) on average weights 210 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Collared tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.7 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Collared tuco-tucos 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 collared tuco-tuco (Ctenomys torquatus) is a tuco-tuco species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina where it lives underground in a burrow it digs in savannah habitats. It is a relatively common species and the IUCN has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Collared tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- White-toothed tuco-tuco with a weight of 244 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
- San Luis tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Emily’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 285 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with a weight of 327 grams
- Reddish tuco-tuco with a weight of 173 grams
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a weight of 462 grams
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a weight of 166 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a weight of 489 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Collared tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys torquatus:
- Argentine tuco-tuco bringing 221 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Greedy olalla rat bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Collared tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Collared tuco-tuco:
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern Plains woodrat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Collared tuco-tuco
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Collared tuco-tuco: