It is hard to guess what a Talas tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Talas tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) on average weights 141 grams (0.31 lbs).
The Talas tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.6 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Talas tuco-tucos can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 Talas tuco-tuco (Ctenomys talarum) is a species of tuco-tuco endemic to eastern Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Talas tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Catamarca tuco-tuco with a weight of 316 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 202 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a weight of 489 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Argentine tuco-tuco with a weight of 221 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco with a weight of 179 grams
- Southern tuco-tuco with a weight of 403 grams
- Tucuman tuco-tuco with a weight of 217 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Talas tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys talarum:
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Sado mole bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Striped treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Southern African vlei rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Blick’s grass rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Talas tuco-tuco
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Talas tuco-tuco:
- Ornate shrew
- Japanese dormouse
- Boehm’s gerbil
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
- Giant forest hog
- Mountain cottontail
- Little pocket mouse
- Korean field mouse
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Kellen’s dormouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Talas tuco-tuco
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Talas tuco-tuco:
- Typical striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Common vole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Golden mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years