How big does a Gray tree rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Gray tree rat (Lenothrix canus) reaches an average size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 3.75 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 150 grams (0.33 lbs). A Gray tree rat has 2 babies at once. The Gray tree rat (genus: Lenothrix) 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.
{{Not to be confused with eastern grey squirrel, which is commonly referred to as a “tree rat” in its introduced range}}The gray tree rat (Lenothrix canus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae and the only species in the monotypic genus Lenothrix. It is found in forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. A common species, the IUCN has rated it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Gray tree rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Handleyomys alfaroi with 3 babies per litter
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per litter
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jaliscan cotton rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Guatemalan vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Charming thicket rat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Gray tree rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray tree rat:
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray tree rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gray tree rat:
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Gray-bellied tree mouse
- Cacomistle
- Red tree vole
- Chacoan peccary
- Asian particolored bat
- Bornean ferret-badger
- Seminole bat
- Greater long-tailed hamster
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gray tree rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gray tree rat:
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Alpine pika with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gray tree rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lenothrix canus:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Siberian flying squirrel bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- New Guinean rat bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
- White-eared cotton rat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Brazilian squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale