Categories
Animal Size

Little Swan Island hutia size: How big do they get?

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 average adult size of a Little Swan Island hutia is  (1' 2

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:

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:

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: