It is hard to guess what a Big-eared woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared woodrat (Neotoma macrotis) on average weights 225 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Big-eared woodrat is from the family Cricetidae (genus: Neotoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.7 cm (0′ 2″).
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 woodrat (Neotoma macrotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Closely related to, and formerly included in the species Neotoma fuscipes, it occurs from northern Baja California northward to the California Coast Ranges west and south of the Salinas Valley and in the Sierra Nevada to the South Fork American River. A study of the species found the “Bear Canyon” virus, a mammarenavirus, traditionally associated with the California mouse, is actually passed by the big-eared woodrat before host-jumping to the California mouse.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared woodrat
We found other animals of the Cricetidae family:
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Bank vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Northern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- European water vole with a weight of 120 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Caatinga vesper mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Handleyomys intectus with a weight of 60 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus with a weight of 60 grams
- Dark bolo mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma macrotis:
- Brush-tailed phascogale bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Plantain squirrel bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Southern spiny pocket mouse bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 266 grams to the scale
- Moon-toothed degu bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 220 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Nectomys squamipes bringing 185 grams to the scale