It is hard to guess what a Magellanic tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Magellanic tuco-tuco (Ctenomys magellanicus) on average weights 272 grams (0.6 lbs).
The Magellanic tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.6 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Magellanic tuco-tuco (Ctenomys magellanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.It is found in Argentina and Chile.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is also known as the cururo by the Ona culture of Tierra del Fuego.
Animals of the same family as a Magellanic tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 202 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with a weight of 327 grams
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 117 grams
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a weight of 462 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco with a weight of 141 grams
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 192 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco with a weight of 179 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco with a weight of 210 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Magellanic tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys magellanicus:
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Smith’s bush squirrel bringing 222 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Tumbala climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Patagonian weasel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Fijian monkey-faced bat bringing 256 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Magellanic tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Magellanic tuco-tuco:
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guyenne spiny rat with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rufous elephant shrew with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)