How big does a Bush rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) reaches an average size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 3.42 years, they grow from 4 grams (0.01 lbs) to 124 grams (0.27 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Bush rats have 4 babies about 3 times per year. The Bush 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 bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is a small Australian nocturnal animal. It is an omnivore and one of the most common indigenous species of rat on the continent, found in many heathland areas of Victoria and New South Wales.
Animals of the same family as a Bush rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with 1 babies per litter
- Sooretamys with a weight of 144 grams
- Oligoryzomys arenalis with a weight of 25 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grey dwarf hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-ankled mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Long-tailed mouse with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Anderson’s gerbil with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Bush rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bush rat:
- New Caledonia flying fox with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pink fairy armadillo with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Collared tuco-tuco with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bush rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Bush rat:
- Long-clawed ground squirrel
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Himalayan shrew
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Hairy-tailed mole
- Gerbil mouse
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
- Woolly dormouse
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- European water vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bush rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bush rat:
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Woodland vole with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bush rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus fuscipes:
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Blick’s grass rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Northern flying squirrel bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Northern palm squirrel bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale