It is hard to guess what a Highland tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Highland tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus) on average weights 327 grams (0.72 lbs).
The Highland tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.3 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Highland tuco-tucos can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 highland tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is found in high grassland in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru where it lives in burrows.
Animals of the same family as a Highland tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a weight of 489 grams
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a weight of 92 grams
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
- Azara’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco with a weight of 210 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Emily’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 285 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 117 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Highland tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys opimus:
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur bringing 326 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Common gundi bringing 289 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Stoat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Brown-eared woolly opossum bringing 351 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Steere’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Highland tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Highland tuco-tuco:
- Saharan striped polecat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common gundi with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a size of 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Highland tuco-tuco
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Highland tuco-tuco: