How big does a Desert woodrat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) reaches an average size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 144 grams (0.32 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 9 grams (0.02 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Desert woodrats have 2 babies about 3 times per year. The Desert woodrat (genus: Neotoma) 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 desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) is a species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America.
Animals of the same family as a Desert woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Handleyomys melanotis with 3 babies per litter
- Abrothrix sanborni with a weight of 24 grams
- Hairy harvest mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Maxomys baeodon with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray-tailed vole with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat with 4 babies per litter
- Luzon broad-toothed rat with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a Desert woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert woodrat:
- Steppe pika with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Philippine forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Desert woodrat:
- Moss-forest rat
- Fishing cat
- Greater mole-rat
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
- Malayan mountain spiny rat
- Silvery greater galago
- Tome’s spiny rat
- Deppe’s squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Desert woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma lepida:
- Holochilus brasiliensis bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Palawan spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Maxomys baeodon bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Striped treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale