It is hard to guess what a Seven-banded armadillo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus) on average weights 1.53 kg (3.37 lbs).
The Seven-banded armadillo is from the family Dasypodidae (genus: Dasypus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 44.3 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Seven-banded armadillos have 6 babies per litter.
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 seven-banded, long-nosed armadillo or just seven-banded armadillo, Dasypus septemcinctus, is a species of armadillo from South America found in Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.It is a solitary nocturnal, terrestrial animal, living mostly in dry habitats, outside of rainforest regions.
Animals of the same family as a Seven-banded armadillo
We found other animals of the Dasypodidae family:
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo bringing 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) to the scale
- Big hairy armadillo bringing 4.46 kilos (9.83 lbs) to the scale
- Southern three-banded armadillo bringing 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs) to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo with a weight of 129 grams
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo bringing 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs) to the scale
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo bringing 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) to the scale
- Andean hairy armadillo bringing 2.14 kilos (4.72 lbs) to the scale
- Nine-banded armadillo bringing 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) to the scale
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo bringing 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) to the scale
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo bringing 3.74 kilos (8.25 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Seven-banded armadillo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasypus septemcinctus:
- Long-tailed porcupine with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs)
- Tufted ground squirrel with a weight of 1.35 kilos (2.98 lbs)
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs)
- Chinese hare with a weight of 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs)
- Southern viscacha with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.31 kilos (2.89 lbs)
- Southern three-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Seven-banded armadillo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Seven-banded armadillo: