It is hard to guess what a Chestnut-bellied spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut-bellied spiny rat (Maxomys ochraceiventer) on average weights 159 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Chestnut-bellied spiny rat 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.
The chestnut-bellied spiny rat (Maxomys ochraceiventer) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut-bellied spiny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- White-tailed rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Gray tree rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Nikolaus’s mouse with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut-bellied spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Maxomys ochraceiventer:
- Tete veld aethomys bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat bringing 148 grams to the scale
- New Caledonia flying fox bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Long-footed treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Palawan spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Piute ground squirrel bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Striped bush squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chestnut-bellied spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chestnut-bellied spiny rat:
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- San MartÃn Island woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Anthony’s woodrat with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)