How big does a Eastern rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Eastern rat (Rattus mordax) reaches an average size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 230 grams (0.51 lbs). A Eastern rat has 2 babies at once. The Eastern rat (genus: Rattus) is a member of the family Muridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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:
- Link rat with 1 babies per litter
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per litter
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coues’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Red spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
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:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- San MartÃn Island woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
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:
- Jaguarundi
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Wolverine
- American black bear
- Gray tree rat
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat
- Pel’s flying squirrel
- Java pipistrelle
- Brown deer mouse
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:
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Ochre mole-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Sonoran woodrat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Euphrates jerboa bringing 232 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale