It is hard to guess what a Allen’s woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Allen’s woodrat (Hodomys alleni) on average weights 368 grams (0.81 lbs).
The Allen’s woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Hodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.3 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Allen’s woodrats have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Allen’s woodrat (Hodomys alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is the only species in the genus Hodomys.
Animals of the same family as a Allen’s woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Oecomys roberti with a weight of 73 grams
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Anthony’s woodrat with a weight of 195 grams
- Target rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a weight of 42 grams
- African pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Oecomys cleberi with a weight of 73 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hodomys alleni:
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Colombian spiny rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Small flying fox bringing 434 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni bringing 422 grams to the scale
- Common yellow-toothed cavy bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Allen’s woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Allen’s woodrat:
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black flying fox with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ceram fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Baja California rock squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Allen’s woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Allen’s woodrat: