It is hard to guess what a African wading rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult African wading rat (Colomys goslingi) on average weights 62 grams (0.14 lbs).
The African wading rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Colomys). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, African wading rats have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The African wading rat or African water rat (Colomys goslingi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Colomys. It is native to Africa, where it occurs in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia.An aquatic species, this rat is found in and around streams and pools in rainforest habitat, and sometimes in grassland and savanna regions.
Animals of the same family as a African wading rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse with a weight of 75 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- JunÃn grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Smoky grass mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Delany’s mouse with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a African wading rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Colomys goslingi:
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Insular vole bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Southern marsupial mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Colorado chipmunk bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed climbing mouse bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a African wading rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as African wading rat:
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a African wading rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a African wading rat:
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Mayor’s mouse
- Indian grey mongoose
- Long-tailed mouse
- Turbo shrew
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Marbled cat
- Large treeshrew
- Asian particolored bat
- Moss-forest rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a African wading rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a African wading rat:
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Australian swamp rat with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years