It is hard to guess what a Natterer’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Natterer’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys nattereri) on average weights 400 grams (0.88 lbs).
The Natterer’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 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.
Natterer’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys nattereri) is a tuco-tuco species from South America. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with, or a subspecies of, the Bolivian tuco-tuco, Ctenomys boliviensis,
Animals of the same family as a Natterer’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Mottled tuco-tuco with a weight of 192 grams
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 212 grams
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a weight of 166 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a weight of 272 grams
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a weight of 462 grams
- Emily’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 285 grams
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
- Azara’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Natterer’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys nattereri:
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Pygmy slow loris bringing 343 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Derby’s woolly opossum bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered triok bringing 370 grams to the scale
- Michoacan pocket gopher bringing 474 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed squirrel bringing 427 grams to the scale
- Long-eared hedgehog bringing 332 grams to the scale