How big does a Red-rumped agouti get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) reaches an average size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 17.75 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 3.02 kg (6.65 lbs). A Red-rumped agouti has 1 babies at once. The Red-rumped agouti (genus: Dasyprocta) is a member of the family Dasyproctidae.
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 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
We found other animals of the Dasyproctidae family:
- Black agouti bringing 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs) to the scale
- Azara’s agouti bringing 2.98 kilos (6.57 lbs) to the scale
- Red acouchi with 2 babies per litter
- Green acouchi with 1 babies per litter
- Crested agouti with 2 babies per litter
- Orinoco agouti bringing 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs) to the scale
- Red acouchi with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Mexican agouti bringing 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) to the scale
- Kalinowski’s agouti bringing 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs) to the scale
- Black-rumped agouti with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Red-rumped agouti
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-rumped agouti:
- Bald uakari with a size of 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-striped dorcopsis with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Rhesus macaque with a size of 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Brazilian porcupine with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Patas monkey with a size of 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gray dorcopsis with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-rumped agouti
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red-rumped agouti:
- Grivet
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Hershkovitz’s titi
- Common wombat
- Bechstein’s bat
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo
- Green bush squirrel
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Gray-backed sportive lemur
- Daubenton’s bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-rumped agouti
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-rumped agouti:
- Red river hog with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Big hairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Celebes crested macaque with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Pygmy marmoset with an average maximal age of 15.08 years
- White-faced saki with an average maximal age of 20.67 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 19 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-rumped agouti
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyprocta leporina:
- Common brushtail possum with a weight of 2.69 kilos (5.93 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat with a weight of 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Kinkajou with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s cat with a weight of 2.73 kilos (6.02 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- Hoary bamboo rat with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Cat with a weight of 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs)
- Scrub hare with a weight of 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)