It is hard to guess what a Peruvian tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peruvian tuco-tuco (Ctenomys peruanus) on average weights 489 grams (1.08 lbs).
The Peruvian tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.8 cm (0′ 10″). On average, Peruvian tuco-tucos can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 Peruvian tuco-tuco (Ctenomys peruanus) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Peruvian tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 385 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Catamarca tuco-tuco with a weight of 316 grams
- Argentine tuco-tuco with a weight of 221 grams
- Tawny tuco-tuco with a weight of 280 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco with a weight of 235 grams
- Southern tuco-tuco with a weight of 403 grams
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 192 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peruvian tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys peruanus:
- Eastern gray squirrel bringing 546 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed chinchilla bringing 480 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed chinchilla bringing 500 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
- Social tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose bringing 485 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Peruvian tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Peruvian tuco-tuco:
- Mexican gray squirrel with a size of 25.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican ground squirrel with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kinabalu squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Uinta ground squirrel with a size of 21.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed weasel with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Moluccan flying fox with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Peruvian tuco-tuco
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Peruvian tuco-tuco: