It is hard to guess what a Conover’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Conover’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys conoveri) on average weights 860 grams (1.9 lbs).
The Conover’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.8 cm (0′ 11″).
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.
Conover’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys conoveri) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Conover’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Strong tuco-tuco with a weight of 233 grams
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 202 grams
- Southern tuco-tuco with a weight of 403 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 385 grams
- White-toothed tuco-tuco with a weight of 244 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Tawny tuco-tuco with a weight of 280 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Conover’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys conoveri:
- Grey-headed flying fox bringing 702 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
- Mexican prairie dog bringing 900 grams to the scale
- Bolivian bamboo rat bringing 729 grams to the scale
- Montane guinea pig with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Chinese ferret-badger bringing 939 grams to the scale
- Emperor rat with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Giant naked-tailed rat bringing 745 grams to the scale
- Rock squirrel bringing 715 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Conover’s tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Conover’s tuco-tuco:
- Sunda slow loris with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Long-tailed weasel with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose with a size of 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lowland ringtail possum with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Uinta ground squirrel with a size of 21.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- European hedgehog with a size of 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)