It is hard to guess what a Southern naked-tailed armadillo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous unicinctus) on average weights 4.06 kg (8.96 lbs).
The Southern naked-tailed armadillo is from the family Dasypodidae (genus: Cabassous). It is usually born with about 100 grams (0.22 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.5 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Southern naked-tailed armadillos have 1 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 southern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous unicinctus) is a species of small armadillo from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Southern naked-tailed armadillo
We found other animals of the Dasypodidae family:
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo bringing 3.74 kilos (8.25 lbs) to the scale
- Pichi bringing 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) to the scale
- Big hairy armadillo bringing 4.46 kilos (9.83 lbs) to the scale
- Greater long-nosed armadillo bringing 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs) to the scale
- Southern long-nosed armadillo bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo with a weight of 130 grams
- Seven-banded armadillo bringing 1.53 kilos (3.37 lbs) to the scale
- Andean hairy armadillo bringing 2.14 kilos (4.72 lbs) to the scale
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo bringing 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs) to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo with a weight of 129 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern naked-tailed armadillo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cabassous unicinctus:
- Diana monkey with a weight of 4.36 kilos (9.61 lbs)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs)
- Masked palm civet with a weight of 4.3 kilos (9.48 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a weight of 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a weight of 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs)
- Moustached guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth with a weight of 4 kilos (8.82 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern naked-tailed armadillo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern naked-tailed armadillo:
- Ruddy mongoose with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel with a size of 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Brown woolly monkey with a size of 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bengal fox with a size of 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Nasuella olivacea with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Amami rabbit with a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern naked-tailed armadillo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southern naked-tailed armadillo: