What is the maximal age a Jamaican coney reaches?
An adult Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii) usually gets as old as 8.25 years.
Jamaican coneys are around 120 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 85 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). As a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Geocapromys), a Jamaican coney caries out around 2 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″).
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 Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), also known as the Jamaican hutia and the Browns hutia, is a terrestrial land mammal found in the rocky, forested areas of Jamaica, and is endemic to the Island. It is in the order Rodentia and the family Capromyidae.It is related to the hutias and more distantly to guinea pigs. It is the only extant native land mammal on Jamaica besides bats.
Animals of the same family as a Jamaican coney
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Capromyidae):
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s hutia becoming 11.33 years old
- Bahamian hutia becoming 6 years old
- Little Swan Island hutia growing to a mass of 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hispaniolan hutia becoming 9.83 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Jamaican coney
With an average age of 8.25 years, Jamaican coney are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 9 years
- Northern bettong usually reaching 7 years
- Edible dormouse usually reaching 9 years
- Yuma myotis usually reaching 8.75 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk usually reaching 7 years
- Tropical pocket gopher usually reaching 7 years
- Hispaniolan hutia usually reaching 9.83 years
- Stoat usually reaching 7.08 years
- Feathertail glider usually reaching 7.17 years
- Gray dorcopsis usually reaching 8 years
Animals with the same number of babies Jamaican coney
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Golden palm civet
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Antelope jackrabbit
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- Little pied bat
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- Epixerus
- Low’s squirrel
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat
- Indian palm squirrel
Weighting as much as Jamaican coney
A fully grown Jamaican coney reaches around 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs). So do these animals:
- Platypus weighting 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs) on average
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby weighting 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) on average
- Nabarlek weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
- Haussa genet weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
- Chacoan mara weighting 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) on average
- Selous’s mongoose weighting 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) on average
- Emin’s pouched rat weighting 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) on average
- European pine marten weighting 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) on average
- Gambian pouched rat weighting 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) on average
- Indian grey mongoose weighting 1.31 kilos (2.89 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Jamaican coney
Those animals grow as big as a Jamaican coney:
- Yarkand hare with 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Abyssinian genet with 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Common kusimanse with 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cape gray mongoose with 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Riverine rabbit with 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-beaked echidna with 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Mexican prairie dog with 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Haussa genet with 42 cm (1′ 5″)