It is hard to guess what a Ricefield rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ricefield rat (Rattus argentiventer) on average weights 165 grams (0.36 lbs).
The Ricefield rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.3 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Ricefield rats have 9 babies per litter.
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 ricefield rat (Rattus argentiventer) is a species of rat found throughout Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Ricefield rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-tailed mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- Inca Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Rajah spiny rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Bank vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Carpentarian rock rat with a weight of 123 grams
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis with a weight of 23 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Florida naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same weight as a Ricefield rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus argentiventer:
- Nectomys squamipes bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Dusky rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Stein’s rat bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Large treeshrew bringing 182 grams to the scale
- New Caledonia flying fox bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- White-eared cotton rat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Alpine pika bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ricefield rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ricefield rat:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- San MartÃn Island woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ricefield rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (9) as a Ricefield rat: