It is hard to guess what a Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat (Lophuromys sikapusi) on average weights 62 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Lophuromys). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.8 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Rusty-bellied brush-furred rats have 3 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.
The rusty-bellied brush-furred rat (Lophuromys sikapusi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, and pastureland.
Animals of the same family as a Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Nectomys squamipes with a weight of 185 grams
- Tres Marías Island mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Crab-eating rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per litter
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 29 grams
- Buxton’s jird with 5 babies per litter
- Yellow-haired hill rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Darien harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Dusky rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same weight as a Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lophuromys sikapusi:
- Small Japanese mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Big deer mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed climbing mouse bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Bushveld gerbil bringing 73 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat:
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland thicket rat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- California red tree mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat: