It is hard to guess what a Red hocicudo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red hocicudo (Oxymycterus rufus) on average weights 82 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Red hocicudo is from the family Muridae (genus: Oxymycterus). They can live for up to 2.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Red hocicudos can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 red hocicudo (Oxymycterus rufus) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
Animals of the same family as a Red hocicudo
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Murree vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- House mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil with a weight of 123 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Sula rat with a weight of 131 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red hocicudo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oxymycterus rufus:
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Darling Downs hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Roman mole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Nilgiri striped squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Marmoset rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Angolan rousette bringing 68 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Red hocicudo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Red hocicudo:
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Common treeshrew
- North American river otter
- Calamian deer
- Schlieffen’s bat
- Gobi jerboa
- Eastern harvest mouse
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Moss-forest rat
- Leopard cat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red hocicudo
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red hocicudo:
- Talas tuco-tuco with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Woodland vole with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Australian swamp rat with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Water opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years