What is the maximal age a Coruro reaches?
An adult Coruro (Spalacopus cyanus) usually gets as old as 6 years.
Coruros are around 80 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Octodontidae family (genus: Spalacopus), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The coruro (Spalacopus cyanus) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae. It is monotypic within the genus Spalacopus. The species is endemic to central Chile, where it has been found in a wide variety of habitats, from coastal to montane. It is fossorial and lives in colonies.
Animals of the same family as a Coruro
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Octodontidae):
- Plains viscacha rat bringing the scale to 86 grams
- Bridges’s degu bringing the scale to 162 grams
- Common degu becoming 7.08 years old
- Mountain degu becoming 7.33 years old
- Sage’s rock rat bringing the scale to 96 grams
- Chilean rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing the scale to 124 grams
- Moon-toothed degu bringing the scale to 200 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Coruro
With an average age of 6 years, Coruro are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Cuban solenodon usually reaching 6.5 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 5 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 6 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk usually reaching 7 years
- Hispid cotton rat usually reaching 5.17 years
- Indian gerbil usually reaching 7 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara usually reaching 7 years
- Tropical pocket gopher usually reaching 7 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat usually reaching 5 years
- Plains rat usually reaching 5.58 years
Animals with the same number of babies Coruro
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Swamp rabbit
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Heath mouse
- Alpine pine vole
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Mountain pygmy possum
- Eastern mole
- Nephelomys albigularis
- Chinese bamboo rat
- Pinyon mouse
Weighting as much as Coruro
A fully grown Coruro reaches around 101 grams (0.22 lbs). So do these animals:
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with 90 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel with 104 grams
- Shaw’s jird with 90 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with 121 grams
- Gray short-tailed opossum with 94 grams
- Arnhem Land rock rat with 94 grams
- Miller’s mastiff bat with 98 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with 95 grams
- Biting chinchilla mouse with 82 grams
- Rough-haired golden mole with 112 grams
Animals as big as a Coruro
Those animals grow as big as a Coruro:
- Mongolian gerbil with 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ghost bat with 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole with 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dwarf flying fox with 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat with 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Slender rat with 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)