How big does a Bunny rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Bunny rat (Reithrodon auritus) reaches an average size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5.5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 79 grams (0.17 lbs). A Bunny rat has 3 babies at once. The Bunny rat (genus: Reithrodon) 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 bunny rat, or hairy-soled conyrat (Reithrodon auritus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern South America.
Animals of the same family as a Bunny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Desert pygmy mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Senegal gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Namaqua rock rat with 3 babies per litter
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Arizona woodrat with a weight of 200 grams
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Bunny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bunny rat:
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains viscacha rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater big-footed mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- California kangaroo rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-striped dasyure with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bunny rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bunny rat:
- Slender squirrel
- Pampas fox
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Hispid pocket mouse
- Brush rabbit
- Plains pocket gopher
- Taiwan field mouse
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse
- Volcano harvest mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bunny rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bunny rat:
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Plains rat with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bunny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodon auritus:
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Oecomys paricola bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Gray mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale