It is hard to guess what a Common punaré weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common punaré (Thrichomys apereoides) on average weights 298 grams (0.66 lbs).
The Common punaré is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Thrichomys). It is usually born with about 21 grams (0.05 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Common punarés have 3 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 common punaré, Thrichomys apereoides, is a species of spiny rat endemic to Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Common punaré
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
- Gray-footed spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Fischer’s guiara with a weight of 188 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Guaira spiny rat with a weight of 349 grams
- Long-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 205 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 502 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common punaré
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thrichomys apereoides:
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Hammer-headed bat bringing 336 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
- Magellanic tuco-tuco bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Red-legged sun squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Common punaré
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Common punaré: