It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed hocicudo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed hocicudo (Oxymycterus nasutus) on average weights 67 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Long-nosed 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 long-nosed hocicudo (Oxymycterus nasutus) is a South American rodent species found in southeastern Brazil and Uruguay. It hunts grubs and worms under the cover of leaves, logs, and stones. It has a long, flexible nose, and usually utilizes the tunnels and pathways created by other rodents.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed hocicudo
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Cutch rat with 5 babies per litter
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Guinea multimammate mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Puebla deer mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Maxomys baeodon with a weight of 159 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed hocicudo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oxymycterus nasutus:
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Pale-faced bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Acacia rat bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Atherton antechinus bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale