It is hard to guess what a Mottled tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mottled tuco-tuco (Ctenomys latro) on average weights 192 grams (0.42 lbs).
The Mottled tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 cm (0′ 7″).
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 mottled tuco-tuco (Ctenomys latro) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.It is endemic to Argentina.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Mottled tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a weight of 462 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco with a weight of 179 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco with a weight of 235 grams
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 164 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Tawny tuco-tuco with a weight of 280 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco with a weight of 141 grams
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a weight of 272 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a weight of 489 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mottled tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys latro:
- Allen’s cotton rat bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Cape York rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat bringing 196 grams to the scale
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel bringing 199 grams to the scale
- Greedy olalla rat bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Colombian weasel bringing 211 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- White-bellied nesomys bringing 214 grams to the scale
- Spectral bat bringing 171 grams to the scale