It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys nigripes weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys nigripes (Oligoryzomys delticola) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys nigripes is from the family Muridae (genus: Oligoryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 meter (6′ 7″). Usually, Oligoryzomys nigripess 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.
Oligoryzomys nigripes, also known as the black-footed colilargo or the black-footed pygmy rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. Oligoryzomys nigripes is a species that has been further divided into different sister taxa throughout history.It is found in different countries in South America. It is a large species with long ears, dark yellow to dark brown upperparts, sharply delimited from the whitish underparts, and often a pink girdle on the chest. This species of rat spends much of its life among the trees. The karyotype is 2n = 62, FNa = 78–82.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Nephelomys keaysi with a weight of 58 grams
- Webb’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 61 grams
- Giant white-tailed rat with a weight of 644 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Arianus’s rat with a weight of 70 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Stein’s rat with a weight of 151 grams
- Emperor rat bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Monte gerbil mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with a weight of 25 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys delticola:
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys arenalis bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Minute fruit bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Texas mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- African yellow bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Greater long-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Oligoryzomys nigripes: