What is the maximal age a Red-rumped agouti reaches?
An adult Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) usually gets as old as 17.75 years.
Red-rumped agoutis are around 109 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). As a member of the Dasyproctidae family (genus: Dasyprocta), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″).
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 red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina), also known as the golden-rumped agouti, orange-rumped agouti or Brazilian agouti, is a species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. It is native to northeastern South America, where found in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, northeastern Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago and Lesser Antilles. It has also been introduced to the Virgin Islands. Despite the alternative name Brazilian agouti, it is neither the only nor the most widespread species of agouti in Brazil. In Brazil all agoutis are often called “cutia” [kuˈtʃiɐ].It is found in a wide range of forests, including rainforest and secondary forest.
Animals of the same family as a Red-rumped agouti
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyproctidae):
- Red acouchi becoming 10 years old
- Orinoco agouti growing to a mass of 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Mexican agouti growing to a mass of 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Crested agouti with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kalinowski’s agouti growing to a mass of 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Black agouti growing to a mass of 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Azara’s agouti growing to a mass of 2.98 kgs (6.57 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Central American agouti becoming 10 years old
- Green acouchi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Red-rumped agouti
With an average age of 17.75 years, Red-rumped agouti are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red slender loris usually reaching 16.33 years
- Nyala usually reaching 16 years
- Fossa (animal) usually reaching 20 years
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 20 years
- La Plata dolphin usually reaching 16 years
- Menzbier’s marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 21 years
- Klipspringer usually reaching 17.75 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 19 years
- Cape genet usually reaching 15 years
Animals with the same number of babies Red-rumped agouti
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Black dorcopsis
- Black-eared flying fox
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Greater mouse-tailed bat
- Riverine rabbit
- Horse
- Spotted seal
- Western red colobus
- Zanzibar bushbaby
Weighting as much as Red-rumped agouti
A fully grown Red-rumped agouti reaches around 3.02 kg (6.65 lbs). So do these animals:
- Yellow-throated marten weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Golden-crowned sifaka weighting 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) on average
- Golden palm civet weighting 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) on average
- Flat-headed cat weighting 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) on average
- Red-tailed monkey weighting 3.54 kilos (7.8 lbs) on average
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Giant forest genet weighting 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs) on average
- Virginia opossum weighting 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) on average
- Ground cuscus weighting 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs) on average
- Black-rumped agouti weighting 2.9 kilos (6.39 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Red-rumped agouti
Those animals grow as big as a Red-rumped agouti:
- Pale-throated sloth with 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yellow-throated marten with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Philippine porcupine with 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Guatemalan black howler with 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hoolock gibbon with 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Salt’s dik-dik with 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Southern river otter with 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Assam macaque with 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)