It is hard to guess what a Minca spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Minca spiny rat (Proechimys mincae) on average weights 284 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Minca 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 Minca spiny rat (Proechimys mincae) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Minca spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 518 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 502 grams
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
- Pacific spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 201 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 30 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Minca spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys mincae:
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Pteropus temmincki bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale