How big does a Eastern woodrat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana) reaches an average size of 21.2 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 3 years, they grow from 14 grams (0.03 lbs) to 252 grams (0.56 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Eastern woodrats have 3 babies about 2 times per year. The Eastern 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 eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), also known as the Florida woodrat or bush rat is a pack rat native to the central and Eastern United States. It constructs large dens that may serve as nests for many generations and stores food in outlying caches for the winter. While widespread and not uncommon, it has declined or disappeared in several areas.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 2 babies per litter
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoke-bellied rat with 4 babies per litter
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat with 4 babies per litter
- Diminutive woodrat with a weight of 80 grams
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster with 4 babies per litter
- Andean big-eared mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Northern mole vole with 3 babies per litter
- Soft grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern woodrat:
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Three-striped ground squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- North African hedgehog with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian hedgehog with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Eastern woodrat:
- Polynesian rat
- Hispid pocket mouse
- Desert mouse
- Red-nosed mouse
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Western mouse
- Hoary bamboo rat
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Vancouver Island marmot
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern woodrat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern woodrat:
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Southern bog lemming with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with an average maximal age of 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma floridana:
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Big-eared woodrat bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- White-tailed olalla rat bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Gray slender loris bringing 254 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Emily’s tuco-tuco bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Southern mountain cavy bringing 261 grams to the scale