It is hard to guess what a Poncelet’s giant rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Poncelet’s giant rat (Solomys ponceleti) on average weights 1000 grams (2.2 lbs).
The Poncelet’s giant rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Solomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27 cm (0′ 11″).
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.
Poncelet’s giant rat or Poncelet’s naked-tailed rat (Solomys ponceleti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Poncelet’s giant rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cape gerbil with a weight of 92 grams
- Oecomys concolor with a weight of 54 grams
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil with a weight of 123 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Percival’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Poncelet’s giant rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Solomys ponceleti:
- Long-nosed potoroo with a weight of 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs)
- Hoffmanns’s titi with a weight of 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs)
- Cape dune mole-rat bringing 804 grams to the scale
- Western woolly lemur bringing 828 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Japanese marten with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat bringing 867 grams to the scale
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur bringing 936 grams to the scale
- North African hedgehog bringing 931 grams to the scale
- Tapeti bringing 988 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Poncelet’s giant rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Poncelet’s giant rat:
- Long-tailed weasel with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Oncilla with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Common echymipera with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped bandicoot with a size of 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cape dune mole-rat with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped possum with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)