It is hard to guess what a Oecomys trinitatis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys trinitatis (Oecomys trinitatis) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Oecomys trinitatis 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 trinitatis, also known as the long-furred oecomys, long-furred rice rat, Trinidad arboreal rice rat, or big arboreal rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. As currently constituted, it has a wide distribution in Central America and South America, being found in southern Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, much of Brazil, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru. It may in fact include more than one species.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys trinitatis
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per litter
- Maximowicz’s vole with 6 babies per litter
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with a weight of 419 grams
- Himalayan field rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 29 grams
- Island mouse with a weight of 164 grams
- Stephen’s woodrat with a weight of 149 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys trinitatis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys trinitatis:
- Forest Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Large fruit-eating bat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Philippine dawn bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Eremoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale