It is hard to guess what a Four-toed rice tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Four-toed rice tenrec (Oryzorictes tetradactylus) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Four-toed rice tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Oryzorictes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 four-toed rice tenrec (Oryzorictes tetradactylus) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, and swamps.
Animals of the same family as a Four-toed rice tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a weight of 129 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 8 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with a weight of 77 grams
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec with a weight of 102 grams
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Large-eared tenrec with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Four-toed rice tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oryzorictes tetradactylus:
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- El Dorado grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Cairo spiny mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Pale spear-nosed bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Flat-haired mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Panama slender opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Four-toed rice tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Four-toed rice tenrec:
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican vole with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)