It is hard to guess what a Maxomys baeodon weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Maxomys baeodon (Maxomys baeodon) on average weights 159 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Maxomys baeodon is from the family Muridae (genus: Maxomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Maxomys baeodon, also known as the small Bornean maxomys or small spiny rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known only from Sarawak and Sabah in the Malaysian part of Borneo.
Animals of the same family as a Maxomys baeodon
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Peruvian Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Southern bog lemming with a weight of 28 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Tiny fat mouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Southern climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse with a weight of 129 grams
- Indian desert jird with a weight of 71 grams
- Eva’s desert mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Inca Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Maxomys baeodon
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Maxomys baeodon:
- Plateau pika bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Javanese flying squirrel bringing 156 grams to the scale
- Stein’s rat bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Reddish tuco-tuco bringing 173 grams to the scale
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Dusky field rat bringing 157 grams to the scale
- Peleng tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Maxomys baeodon
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Maxomys baeodon:
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stein’s rat with a size of 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rajah spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)