It is hard to guess what a Incan hocicudo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Incan hocicudo (Oxymycterus inca) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Incan hocicudo is from the family Muridae (genus: Oxymycterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.97 meter (6′ 6″).
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 Incan hocicudo (Oxymycterus inca) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Incan hocicudo
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Banana climbing mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Ryukyu spiny rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a weight of 196 grams
- Cabrera’s vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 46 grams
- Palawan spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 64 grams
- Chiapan climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Incan hocicudo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oxymycterus inca:
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Bastard big-footed mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Silver mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- European free-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale