It is hard to guess what a Amazonian marsh rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Amazonian marsh rat (Holochilus sciureus) on average weights 120 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Amazonian marsh rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Holochilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.3 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Amazonian marsh rats have 3 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 Amazonian marsh rat (Holochilus sciureus), also known as the common marsh rat, or simply the marsh rat, is a rodent species from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Amazonian marsh rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Mexican water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Roraima mouse with a weight of 33 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per litter
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat with a weight of 397 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with a weight of 146 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Amazonian marsh rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Holochilus sciureus:
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- African groove-toothed rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Amazonian marsh rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Amazonian marsh rat: