It is hard to guess what a Rothschild’s woolly rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rothschild’s woolly rat (Mallomys rothschildi) on average weights 1.16 kg (2.56 lbs).
The Rothschild’s woolly rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Mallomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 38.1 cm (1′ 3″). Usually, Rothschild’s woolly rats 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.
Rothschild’s woolly rat (Mallomys rothschildi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found on the island of New Guinea: both in the West Papua region of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.The species has been known to eat karuka nuts (Pandanus julianettii), and growers will put platforms or other obstacles on the trunks of the trees to keep the pests out.
Animals of the same family as a Rothschild’s woolly rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cerradomys subflavus with a weight of 49 grams
- Soft grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Scolomys ucayalensis with a weight of 26 grams
- Four-striped grass mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Variable grass mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Jico deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a weight of 79 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rothschild’s woolly rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mallomys rothschildi:
- Angolan talapoin with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea with a weight of 1.34 kilos (2.95 lbs)
- Northern bettong with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Eastern quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Black flying squirrel with a weight of 1.19 kilos (2.62 lbs)
- Greater bilby with a weight of 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs)
- Fennec fox with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
- Green ringtail possum with a weight of 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.31 kilos (2.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rothschild’s woolly rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rothschild’s woolly rat:
- Mountain cuscus with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tres Marias rabbit with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cacomistle with a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Indian grey mongoose with a size of 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Jamaican coney with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Lutrine opossum with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Red-eared guenon with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rothschild’s woolly rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Rothschild’s woolly rat: