It is hard to guess what a Betsileo short-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Betsileo short-tailed rat (Brachyuromys betsileoensis) on average weights 93 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Betsileo short-tailed rat is from the family Nesomyidae (genus: Brachyuromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.2 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Betsileo short-tailed rat (Brachyuromys betsileoensis) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Betsileo short-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Nesomyidae family:
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- White-bellied nesomys with a weight of 214 grams
- Lovat’s climbing mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Hairy-tailed antsangy with a weight of 219 grams
- Gray climbing mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Brants’s climbing mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Western nesomys with a weight of 155 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Betsileo short-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachyuromys betsileoensis:
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Greater musky fruit bat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- White-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Greater tree mouse bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Santander dwarf squirrel bringing 99 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Betsileo short-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Betsileo short-tailed rat:
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Senegal bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)