What is the maximal age a Hispaniolan hutia reaches?
An adult Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) usually gets as old as 9.83 years.
Hispaniolan hutias are around 136 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Plagiodontia), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 30 cm (1′ 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 Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) is one of several hutia (also called zagouti, and jutÃa in Spanish) species to have inhabited at some time the island of Hispaniola (island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). P. aedium is the only scientifically confirmed extant species of the genus Plagiodontia; other species are either extinct or being debatedly catalogued as P. aedium subspecies. The name Plagiodontia means “oblique tooth” in Greek.
Animals of the same family as a Hispaniolan hutia
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Capromyidae):
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jamaican coney becoming 8.25 years old
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s hutia becoming 11.33 years old
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bahamian hutia becoming 6 years old
- Little Swan Island hutia growing to a mass of 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Hispaniolan hutia
With an average age of 9.83 years, Hispaniolan hutia are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red-necked pademelon usually reaching 9 years
- Edible dormouse usually reaching 9 years
- San Diego pocket mouse usually reaching 8.25 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat usually reaching 9.75 years
- Boodie usually reaching 10 years
- Fishing cat usually reaching 10 years
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 10 years
- Common dwarf mongoose usually reaching 10.92 years
- Tasmanian devil usually reaching 8.17 years
- Arabian gazelle usually reaching 11.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Hispaniolan hutia
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Rock cavy
- Koala
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Guanaco
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Maned rat
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Macroscelides proboscideus
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- White-bellied yellow bat
Weighting as much as Hispaniolan hutia
A fully grown Hispaniolan hutia reaches around 1.27 kg (2.8 lbs). So do these animals:
- Emin’s pouched rat weighting 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) on average
- Black-headed night monkey weighting 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) on average
- Spotted linsang weighting 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) on average
- Long-nosed echymipera weighting 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) on average
- Grizzled giant squirrel weighting 1.33 kilos (2.93 lbs) on average
- Northern bettong weighting 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) on average
- Fennec fox weighting 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs) on average
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo weighting 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs) on average
- Northern olingo weighting 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) on average
- Collared titi weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Hispaniolan hutia
Those animals grow as big as a Hispaniolan hutia:
- White-eared opossum with 36 cm (1′ 3″)
- Gray-backed sportive lemur with 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat with 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped polecat with 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Amur hedgehog with 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gray-bellied night monkey with 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Malagasy giant rat with 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)