It is hard to guess what a Big-eared climbing rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared climbing rat (Ototylomys phyllotis) on average weights 86 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Big-eared climbing rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Ototylomys). It is usually born with about 10 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Big-eared climbing rats have 2 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 big-eared climbing rat (Ototylomys phyllotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared climbing rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 119 grams
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Plains harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Alpine woolly rat bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- European water vole with a weight of 120 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
- Gleaning mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared climbing rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ototylomys phyllotis:
- Angoni vlei rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Allen’s chipmunk bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Nimba otter shrew bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon antechinus bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Cauca climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Bolivian big-eared mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 95 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared climbing rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Big-eared climbing rat:
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large vlei rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern mole with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gansu pika with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Big-eared climbing rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Big-eared climbing rat: