It is hard to guess what a Bolaños woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bolaños woodrat (Neotoma palatina) on average weights 198 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Bolaños woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.3 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Bolaños woodrat (Neotoma palatina) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Bolaños woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Puebla deer mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per litter
- Emin’s pouched rat bringing 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) to the scale
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- New Holland mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bolaños woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma palatina:
- Plantain squirrel bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Mexican ground squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Patagonian weasel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Banks flying fox bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Palawan spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Striped treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Yucatan squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale