It is hard to guess what a Tawny-bellied cotton rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tawny-bellied cotton rat (Sigmodon fulviventer) on average weights 196 grams (0.43 lbs).
The Tawny-bellied cotton rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Sigmodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Tawny-bellied cotton rats have 7 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 tawny-bellied cotton rat (Sigmodon fulviventer) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Tawny-bellied cotton rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Canyon mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Oecomys superans with a weight of 73 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse with a weight of 70 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis with a weight of 23 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tawny-bellied cotton rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sigmodon fulviventer:
- Mexican ground squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Strong tuco-tuco bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Three-striped dasyure bringing 223 grams to the scale
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Sangihe tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Striped treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tawny-bellied cotton rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tawny-bellied cotton rat:
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tawny-bellied cotton rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Tawny-bellied cotton rat: