It is hard to guess what a Bagobo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bagobo rat (Bullimus bagobus) on average weights 395 grams (0.87 lbs).
The Bagobo rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Bullimus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.9 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.
The Bagobo rat (Bullimus bagobus) is one of three species of rodent in the genus Bullimus, and in the diverse family Muridae.It is found in the Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Bagobo rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Volcano harvest mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Greater stick-nest rat with a weight of 329 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Mongolian hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with a weight of 175 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bagobo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bullimus bagobus:
- Small flying fox bringing 434 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- European ground squirrel bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Montane bamboo rat bringing 382 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf lemur bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Big-eared flying fox bringing 365 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bagobo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bagobo rat:
- Giant otter shrew with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pichi with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cape ground squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Striped polecat with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mexican gray squirrel with a size of 25.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)