What is the maximal age a Desmarest’s hutia reaches?
An adult Desmarest’s hutia (Capromys pilorides) usually gets as old as 11.33 years.
Desmarest’s hutias are around 125 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). As a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Capromys), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″).
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 Desmarest’s hutia (Capromys pilorides), also known as the Cuban hutia, is a species of rodent endemic to Cuba, although an extinct subspecies is known from the Cayman Islands. Weighing up to 8.5 kg (19 lb), it is the largest of the extant species of hutia (the extinct giant hutias were far larger).
Animals of the same family as a Desmarest’s hutia
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Capromyidae):
- Little Swan Island hutia growing to a mass of 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia becoming 9.83 years old
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jamaican coney becoming 8.25 years old
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bahamian hutia becoming 6 years old
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Desmarest’s hutia
With an average age of 11.33 years, Desmarest’s hutia are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 9.5 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey usually reaching 13.5 years
- Leadbeater’s possum usually reaching 11 years
- Pacarana usually reaching 9.33 years
- Greater spear-nosed bat usually reaching 10 years
- California leaf-nosed bat usually reaching 10.33 years
- Speke’s pectinator usually reaching 10 years
- Heterohyrax antineae usually reaching 12 years
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 12 years
- European hare usually reaching 12 years
Animals with the same number of babies Desmarest’s hutia
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Greater long-tailed hamster
- Southern mountain cavy
- Blanford’s fox
- Spotted-necked otter
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Yellow mongoose
- Balkan snow vole
- Texas kangaroo rat
- Indian grey mongoose
Weighting as much as Desmarest’s hutia
A fully grown Desmarest’s hutia reaches around 5.2 kg (11.46 lbs). So do these animals:
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby weighting 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs) on average
- Mexican agouti weighting 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) on average
- Thick-spined porcupine weighting 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs) on average
- Otter civet weighting 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs) on average
- Diana monkey weighting 4.36 kilos (9.61 lbs) on average
- Hoary fox weighting 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) on average
- Brown howler weighting 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs) on average
- Tammar wallaby weighting 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs) on average
- White-nosed coati weighting 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) on average
- Red panda weighting 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs) on average