It is hard to guess what a Small hocicudo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small hocicudo (Oxymycterus hiska) on average weights 67 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Small hocicudo is from the family Muridae (genus: Oxymycterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.97 meter (6′ 6″).
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 small hocicudo (Oxymycterus hiska) is a little known species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Bolivia and Peru on the eastern slopes of the Andes.
Animals of the same family as a Small hocicudo
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eremoryzomys with a weight of 60 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 209 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Texas mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a weight of 60 grams
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 31 grams
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Small hocicudo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oxymycterus hiska:
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Coast mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Togo mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale