It is hard to guess what a Robust tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Robust tuco-tuco (Ctenomys tuconax) on average weights 249 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Robust tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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 robust tuco-tuco (Ctenomys tuconax) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is a burrowing rodent and is endemic to the Tucumán Province of Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Robust tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Tawny tuco-tuco with a weight of 280 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco with a weight of 235 grams
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 860 grams
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco with a weight of 179 grams
- White-toothed tuco-tuco with a weight of 244 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco with a weight of 210 grams
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a weight of 92 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Robust tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys tuconax:
- Samar squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Plantain squirrel bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Chinese zokor bringing 257 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Black-striped squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Eastern rat bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 221 grams to the scale