It is hard to guess what a Steere’s spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Steere’s spiny rat (Proechimys steerei) on average weights 284 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Steere’s spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Steere’s spiny rat, Proechimys steerei, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Steere’s spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Montane bamboo rat with a weight of 382 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 502 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat with a weight of 627 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 220 grams
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 518 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Steere’s spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys steerei:
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Red-legged sun squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat bringing 301 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale
- Luzon broad-toothed rat bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Long-eared hedgehog bringing 332 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- White-tailed olalla rat bringing 274 grams to the scale