How big does a Pichi get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Pichi (Zaedyus pichiy) reaches an average size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 9 years, they grow from 105 grams (0.23 lbs) to 1.49 kg (3.28 lbs). A Pichi has 2 babies at once. The Pichi (genus: Zaedyus) is a member of the family Dasypodidae.
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 pichi (Zaedyus pichiy), dwarf armadillo or pygmy armadillo is a armadillo native to Argentina and Chile. It is the only living member of the genus Zaedyus, and the only armadillo to hibernate.
Animals of the same family as a Pichi
We found other animals of the Dasypodidae family:
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo with 4 babies per litter
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo bringing 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs) to the scale
- Six-banded armadillo with a size of 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pink fairy armadillo with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giant armadillo with a size of 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Nine-banded armadillo with a size of 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo bringing 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs) to the scale
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a size of 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern three-banded armadillo with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Pichi
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pichi:
- Cuban solenodon with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Grey-headed flying fox with a size of 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Central American squirrel monkey with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Variegated squirrel with a size of 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped polecat with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pichi
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Pichi:
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Murree vole
- Red tree vole
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- Maned wolf
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Red-handed tamarin
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Gray mouse lemur
- African clawless otter
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pichi
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pichi:
- Red acouchi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-footed potoroo with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Congo rope squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Southern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.33 years
- Four-horned antelope with an average maximal age of 10.75 years
- Small Indian civet with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pichi
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zaedyus pichiy:
- Southern three-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Silvery greater galago with a weight of 1.58 kilos (3.48 lbs)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus with a weight of 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs)
- Northern bettong with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Pel’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)