It is hard to guess what a Southern mountain cavy weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern mountain cavy (Microcavia australis) on average weights 261 grams (0.58 lbs).
The Southern mountain cavy is from the family Caviidae (genus: Microcavia). It is usually born with about 30 grams (0.07 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Southern mountain cavys can have babies 4 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 southern mountain cavy (Microcavia australis) is a species of South American rodent in the family Caviidae.
Animals of the same family as a Southern mountain cavy
We found other animals of the Caviidae family:
- Chacoan mara bringing 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with a weight of 361 grams
- Lesser capybara bringing 21.27 kilos (46.89 lbs) to the scale
- Capybara bringing 48.14 kilos (106.13 lbs) to the scale
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with a weight of 387 grams
- Guinea pig with a weight of 728 grams
- Shiny guinea pig with a weight of 283 grams
- Greater guinea pig with a weight of 460 grams
- Patagonian mara bringing 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs) to the scale
- Rock cavy with a weight of 800 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern mountain cavy
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microcavia australis:
- Ear-spot squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Mindanao treeshrew bringing 301 grams to the scale
- Yucatan squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- San MartÃn Island woodrat bringing 240 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Transbaikal zokor bringing 259 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Amazon weasel bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Southwestern water vole bringing 220 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern mountain cavy
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern mountain cavy:
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Guinean rat with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern mountain cavy
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern mountain cavy: