It is hard to guess what a Eastern rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern rat (Rattus mordax) on average weights 230 grams (0.51 lbs).
The Eastern rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Eastern rats have 2 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 eastern rat (Rattus mordax) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse with a weight of 75 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Oligoryzomys griseolus with a weight of 25 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus with a weight of 49 grams
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Banana climbing mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 78 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus mordax:
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- White-footed rabbit-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed muskrat bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Mira climbing rat bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Japanese squirrel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel bringing 224 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern rat:
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Harpy fruit bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao treeshrew with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bramble Cay melomys with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Eastern rat: