It is hard to guess what a Bolivian bamboo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bolivian bamboo rat (Dactylomys boliviensis) on average weights 729 grams (1.61 lbs).
The Bolivian bamboo rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Dactylomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.33 meter (7′ 8″).
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 Bolivian bamboo rat (Dactylomys boliviensis), is a species of spiny rat from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Bolivian bamboo rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat with a weight of 339 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 394 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 502 grams
- Long-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 205 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bolivian bamboo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dactylomys boliviensis:
- White-faced spiny tree-rat bringing 610 grams to the scale
- Superagüi lion tamarin bringing 605 grams to the scale
- Marbled polecat bringing 594 grams to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine bringing 832 grams to the scale
- Maned rat bringing 755 grams to the scale
- Conover’s tuco-tuco bringing 860 grams to the scale
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog bringing 690 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Rock squirrel bringing 715 grams to the scale
- Meerkat bringing 730 grams to the scale