It is hard to guess what a Sloggett’s vlei rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sloggett’s vlei rat (Myotomys sloggetti) on average weights 106 grams (0.23 lbs).
The Sloggett’s vlei rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Myotomys). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Sloggett’s vlei rats can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Sloggett’s vlei rat or ice rat (Myotomys sloggetti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in southern Lesotho and South Africa where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, swamps, and rocky areas. Its name commemorates Col. Arthur Sloggett who served in South Africa and collected at Deelfontein in 1902. This is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Sloggett’s vlei rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Target rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hinde’s rock rat with a weight of 141 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
- Ecuadorian grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Brants’s whistling rat with a weight of 129 grams
- Luzon striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Stein’s rat with a weight of 151 grams
- Desert pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sloggett’s vlei rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotomys sloggetti:
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Malayan field rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori otter shrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Yellow-haired hill rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Low’s squirrel bringing 85 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Sloggett’s vlei rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sloggett’s vlei rat: