What is the maximal age a Patagonian mara reaches?
An adult Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum) usually gets as old as 14 years.
Patagonian maras are around 97 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 579 grams (1.28 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Caviidae family (genus: Dolichotis), a Patagonian mara caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 3 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 66.4 cm (2′ 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 Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum) is a relatively large rodent in the mara genus Dolichotis. It is also known as the Patagonian cavy, Patagonian hare, or dillaby. This herbivorous, somewhat rabbit-like animal is found in open and semiopen habitats in Argentina, including large parts of Patagonia. It is monogamous, but often breeds in warrens shared by several pairs.
Animals of the same family as a Patagonian mara
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Caviidae):
- Brazilian guinea pig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser capybara with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chacoan mara with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern mountain cavy with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rock cavy becoming 11 years old
- Greater guinea pig bringing the scale to 460 grams
- Common yellow-toothed cavy becoming 1.75 years old
- Shipton’s mountain cavy with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Montane guinea pig with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy becoming 4.58 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Patagonian mara
With an average age of 14 years, Patagonian mara are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Quokka usually reaching 12 years
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 16.25 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby usually reaching 15 years
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 13 years
- Common brushtail possum usually reaching 14.67 years
- Gray brocket usually reaching 12 years
- Sable usually reaching 15 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 15.5 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Arctic fox usually reaching 15 years
Animals with the same number of babies Patagonian mara
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
- Granada hare
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Horse
- Western long-beaked echidna
- Amazonian manatee
- Goitered gazelle
- Juan Fernández fur seal
- Pennant’s colobus
Weighting as much as Patagonian mara
A fully grown Patagonian mara reaches around 8.03 kg (17.7 lbs). So do these animals:
- Zanzibar red colobus weighting 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) on average
- Mentawai langur weighting 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) on average
- Black-backed jackal weighting 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs) on average
- Aardwolf weighting 8.14 kilos (17.95 lbs) on average
- Sooty mangabey weighting 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) on average
- Fossa (animal) weighting 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs) on average
- Short-eared dog weighting 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs) on average
- Aders’s duiker weighting 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs) on average
- Red-faced spider monkey weighting 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs) on average
- Thomas’s langur weighting 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Patagonian mara
Those animals grow as big as a Patagonian mara:
- Corsac fox with 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Blue duiker with 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- White-nosed coati with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Suni with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Arctic fox with 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Honey badger with 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Rhesus macaque with 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- North American river otter with 68.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Pygmy hog with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pampas fox with 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)