How big does a Little Swan Island hutia get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Little Swan Island hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus) reaches an average size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 1.5 kg (3.31 lbs). The Little Swan Island hutia (genus: Geocapromys) is a member of the family Capromyidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Little Swan Island hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus) is an extinct species of rodent that lived on the Swan Islands, off north-eastern Honduras in the Caribbean. It was a slow-moving, guinea-pig-like rodent and probably emerged from caves and limestone crevices to forage on bark, small twigs and leaves.It may have been a subspecies of the Jamaican hutia (Geocapromys browni), whose ancestors were carried to the island from Jamaica, 5000–7000 years ago. It was fairly common in the early 20th century, but disappeared after a severe hurricane (Hurricane Janet) in 1955, followed by the introduction of house cats to the island.
Animals of the same family as a Little Swan Island hutia
We found other animals of the Capromyidae family:
- Jamaican coney with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Desmarest’s hutia with 2 babies per litter
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Hispaniolan hutia with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Little Swan Island hutia
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little Swan Island hutia:
- Pousargues’s mongoose with a size of 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant otter shrew with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- European mink with a size of 36.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Meerkat with a size of 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Menzies’ echymipera with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same weight as a Little Swan Island hutia
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geocapromys thoracatus:
- Aquatic genet with a weight of 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs)
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.62 kilos (3.57 lbs)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- Tufted ground squirrel with a weight of 1.35 kilos (2.98 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail with a weight of 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs)
- Bristle-spined rat with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)