It is hard to guess what a Tome’s spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tome’s spiny rat (Proechimys gorgonae) on average weights 285 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Tome’s spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Tome’s spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus), also known as Tomes’ spiny rat or the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Tome’s spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Guyanan spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Napo spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 30 grams
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 167 grams
- Guaira spiny rat with a weight of 349 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tome’s spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys gorgonae:
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Red-legged sun squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed muskrat bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Robust tuco-tuco bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Four-toed hedgehog bringing 311 grams to the scale
- White-tailed olalla rat bringing 274 grams to the scale