It is hard to guess what a Blick’s grass rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Blick’s grass rat (Arvicanthis blicki) on average weights 128 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Blick’s grass rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Arvicanthis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.5 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Blick’s grass rat (Arvicanthis blicki) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Ethiopia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Blick’s grass rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per litter
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Large tree mouse with a weight of 95 grams
- Geoxus valdivianus with a weight of 31 grams
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 102 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a weight of 46 grams
- Mearns’s pouched mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Dolorous grass mouse with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Blick’s grass rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arvicanthis blicki:
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Northern pika bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Buller’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Southern African vlei rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Jungle palm squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Steppe pika bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Southern pocket gopher bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale