It is hard to guess what a Simons’s spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Simons’s spiny rat (Proechimys hendeei) on average weights 285 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Simons’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.
Simons’s spiny rat, Proechimys simonsi, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It was named for American scientific collector Perry O. Simons.
Animals of the same family as a Simons’s spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Common punaré with a weight of 298 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 398 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Magdalena spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- O’Connell’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Steere’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Simons’s spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys hendeei:
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Tumbala climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Lyle’s flying fox bringing 319 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale