It is hard to guess what a Tiny tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tiny tuco-tuco (Ctenomys minutus) on average weights 92 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Tiny tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 tiny tuco-tuco (Ctenomys minutus) is a tuco-tuco species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Tiny tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Argentine tuco-tuco with a weight of 221 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with a weight of 327 grams
- Southern tuco-tuco with a weight of 403 grams
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco with a weight of 179 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 860 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tiny tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys minutus:
- Darling Downs hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Golden hamster bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Greater musky fruit bat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tiny tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tiny tuco-tuco:
- Brazilian squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mohave ground squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)