It is hard to guess what a Jamaican coney weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii) on average weights 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs).
The Jamaican coney is from the family Capromyidae (genus: Geocapromys). They can live for up to 8.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.8 cm (1′ 3″). On average, Jamaican coneys can have babies 2 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 Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), also known as the Jamaican hutia and the Browns hutia, is a terrestrial land mammal found in the rocky, forested areas of Jamaica, and is endemic to the Island. It is in the order Rodentia and the family Capromyidae.It is related to the hutias and more distantly to guinea pigs. It is the only extant native land mammal on Jamaica besides bats.
Animals of the same family as a Jamaican coney
We found other animals of the Capromyidae family:
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Desmarest’s hutia bringing 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs) to the scale
- Little Swan Island hutia bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Hispaniolan hutia bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Bahamian hutia with a weight of 912 grams
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Jamaican coney
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geocapromys brownii:
- Little Swan Island hutia with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Atlantic titi with a weight of 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Tolai hare with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Boodie with a weight of 1.45 kilos (3.2 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Fennec fox with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
- Northern olingo with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Jamaican coney
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Jamaican coney:
- Ring-tailed cat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cozumel raccoon with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Nasuella olivacea with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Palawan stink badger with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Bronze quoll with a size of 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Liberian mongoose with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Alpine woolly rat with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Gambian mongoose with a size of 35 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Jamaican coney
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Jamaican coney:
- Common mole-rat
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Fennec fox
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Bushpig
- Javan mongoose
- American black bear
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Lundomys
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Jamaican coney
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Jamaican coney:
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Moonrat with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 8.75 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with an average maximal age of 9.83 years