It is hard to guess what a Anthony’s woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Anthony’s woodrat (Neotoma anthonyi) on average weights 195 grams (0.43 lbs).
The Anthony’s woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.9 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Anthony’s woodrat (Neotoma anthonyi) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It was found only on Isla Todos Santos in Baja California Norte, Mexico. They are thought to have been driven to extinction through predation from feral cats.
Animals of the same family as a Anthony’s woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Handleyomys fuscatus with a weight of 49 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a weight of 57 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Oligoryzomys destructor with a weight of 25 grams
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat with a weight of 93 grams
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Large tree mouse with a weight of 95 grams
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Anthony’s woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma anthonyi:
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Palawan treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Shrew-faced squirrel bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s guiara bringing 188 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed weasel bringing 191 grams to the scale
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Chacoan tuco-tuco bringing 166 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Anthony’s woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Anthony’s woodrat:
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern African hedgehog with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)