It is hard to guess what a Amazon bamboo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Amazon bamboo rat (Dactylomys dactylinus) on average weights 650 grams (1.43 lbs).
The Amazon bamboo rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Dactylomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.5 cm (1′ 0″).
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.
For Asian bamboo rats (family: Spalacidae), see Bamboo rat.The Amazon bamboo rat (Dactylomys dactylinus) is a species of spiny rat from the Amazon Basin of South America. It is also referred to as coro-coro, Toró, Rato-do-Bambú, or Rata del Bambú in different parts of its range. The bamboo rat prefers to reside in areas of dense vegetation, such as clumps of bamboo or in the canopy. It is an arboreal browser, consuming primarily leaves and spending much of its time off the ground. Because the Amazon bamboo rat spends most of its time in heavily forested areas, it is difficult to observe, and not much is known about its habits.
Animals of the same family as a Amazon bamboo rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 314 grams
- Pará spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Magdalena spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 518 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Amazon bamboo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dactylomys dactylinus:
- Lutrine opossum bringing 556 grams to the scale
- Baja California rock squirrel bringing 551 grams to the scale
- Mexican fox squirrel bringing 697 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Cape ground squirrel bringing 572 grams to the scale
- Golden lion tamarin bringing 593 grams to the scale
- European mink bringing 567 grams to the scale
- Giant otter shrew bringing 685 grams to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel bringing 650 grams to the scale
- Giant naked-tailed rat bringing 745 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Amazon bamboo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Amazon bamboo rat:
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Potto with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Collared titi with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern gray squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mexican prairie dog with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Baja California rock squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Amur hedgehog with a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)