It is hard to guess what a Greater fairy armadillo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater fairy armadillo (Calyptophractus retusus) on average weights 129 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Greater fairy armadillo is from the family Dasypodidae (genus: Calyptophractus). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 greater fairy armadillo (Calyptophractus retusus), also known as Burmeister’s armadillo or the Chacoan fairy armadillo, is a species of armadillo in the family Chlamyphoridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is the only species in the genus Calyptophractus.
Animals of the same family as a Greater fairy armadillo
We found other animals of the Dasypodidae family:
- Screaming hairy armadillo with a weight of 930 grams
- Southern long-nosed armadillo bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo bringing 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs) to the scale
- Greater long-nosed armadillo bringing 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs) to the scale
- Pink fairy armadillo with a weight of 86 grams
- Nine-banded armadillo bringing 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) to the scale
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo bringing 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) to the scale
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo bringing 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) to the scale
- Six-banded armadillo bringing 4.76 kilos (10.49 lbs) to the scale
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo bringing 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Greater fairy armadillo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Calyptophractus retusus:
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Brants’s whistling rat bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Sugar glider bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Yellow-haired hill rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater fairy armadillo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater fairy armadillo:
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater fairy armadillo
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater fairy armadillo:
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Common bent-wing bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with an average maximal age of 11.5 years
- Silver-haired bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- European hedgehog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Markhor with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with an average maximal age of 9.83 years
- Parma wallaby with an average maximal age of 10 years