It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed spiny rat (Proechimys longicaudatus) on average weights 205 grams (0.45 lbs).
The Long-tailed 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.
The long-tailed spiny rat, Proechimys longicaudatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Bristle-spined rat bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat with a weight of 445 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys longicaudatus:
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Mottled tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Pale field rat bringing 169 grams to the scale