What is the maximal age a Tayra reaches?
An adult Tayra (Eira barbara) usually gets as old as 18 years.
Tayras are around 66 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 83 grams (0.18 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Eira), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 61.4 cm (2′ 1″).
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 tayra (Eira barbara) is an omnivorous animal from the weasel family, native to the Americas. It is the only species in the genus Eira.Tayras are also known as the tolomuco or perico ligero in Central America, motete in Honduras, irara in Brazil, san hol or viejo de monte in the Yucatan Peninsula, and high-woods dog (or historically chien bois) in Trinidad. The genus name Eira is derived from the indigenous name of the animal in Bolivia and Peru, while barbara means “strange” or “foreign”.
Animals of the same family as a Tayra
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Mustelidae):
- Marbled polecat becoming 8.92 years old
- European pine marten becoming 17 years old
- Burmese ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European mink becoming 10 years old
- American badger becoming 26 years old
- Cameroon clawless otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Least weasel becoming 10 years old
- Hairy-nosed otter growing to a mass of 5.97 kgs (13.16 lbs)
- Malayan weasel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Striped skunk becoming 12.92 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Tayra
With an average age of 18 years, Tayra are in good companionship of the following animals:
- White-nosed saki usually reaching 17 years
- Swift fox usually reaching 20 years
- Southern reedbuck usually reaching 16.75 years
- Golden jackal usually reaching 16 years
- Wolverine usually reaching 18 years
- Blackbuck usually reaching 20.25 years
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 18 years
- Sheep usually reaching 19.17 years
- Giant forest hog usually reaching 18 years
- Emperor tamarin usually reaching 20.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Tayra
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Plantain squirrel
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Eastern long-eared bat
- Calamian deer
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
- Djoongari
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Black-striped squirrel
- Mexican vole
- Southern Plains woodrat
Weighting as much as Tayra
A fully grown Tayra reaches around 4.14 kg (9.12 lbs). So do these animals:
- Toque macaque weighting 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs) on average
- Large-spotted civet weighting 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) on average
- Asian small-clawed otter weighting 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) on average
- Yellow-bellied marmot weighting 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs) on average
- Red-legged pademelon weighting 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) on average
- Arctic fox weighting 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) on average
- Black agouti weighting 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) on average
- Pampas cat weighting 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) on average
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby weighting 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) on average
- Pampas fox weighting 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Tayra
Those animals grow as big as a Tayra:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Maroon leaf monkey with 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Western red colobus with 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Eastern falanouc with 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Neotropical otter with 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Mantled howler with 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Crab-eating raccoon with 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- De Brazza’s monkey with 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lowland paca with 65 cm (2′ 2″)