It is hard to guess what a Oecomys speciosus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys speciosus (Oecomys speciosus) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Oecomys speciosus is from the family Muridae (genus: Oecomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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.
Oecomys speciosus, also known as the savannah oecomys, arboreal rice rat, or Venezuelan arboreal rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It ranges over northeastern Colombia and much of Venezuela, including the island of Trinidad. This rodent lives in tropical rainforest and tropical dry forest, including secondary forest and gallery forest, as well as in savanna habitat.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys speciosus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Oreoryzomys with a weight of 60 grams
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Dusky rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Andean big-eared mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Maned rat with a weight of 755 grams
- Romanian hamster with a weight of 97 grams
- Volcano harvest mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Western harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 96 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys speciosus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys speciosus:
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Master leaf-eared mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Gray mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale