It is hard to guess what a Bower’s white-toothed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bower’s white-toothed rat (Berylmys bowersi) on average weights 355 grams (0.78 lbs).
The Bower’s white-toothed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Berylmys). They can live for up to 2.83 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Bower’s white-toothed rats have 3 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.
Bower’s white-toothed rat (Berylmys bowersi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Bower’s white-toothed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Large bamboo rat bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Fawn hopping mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per litter
- Melanomys caliginosus with a weight of 41 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 18 grams
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 189 grams
- Charming thicket rat with a weight of 61 grams
- Fat-tailed gerbil with a weight of 47 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bower’s white-toothed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Berylmys bowersi:
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Microcebus coquereli bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Masoala fork-marked lemur bringing 409 grams to the scale
- Mountain giant Sunda rat bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Southern tuco-tuco bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bower’s white-toothed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bower’s white-toothed rat:
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bower’s white-toothed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bower’s white-toothed rat:
- Hairy harvest mouse
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Western red-backed vole
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Pygmy hog
- Savanna gerbil
- Broad-footed mole
- Blanford’s jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bower’s white-toothed rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bower’s white-toothed rat:
- Coast mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Brown antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- New Guinean quoll with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Water opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Australian swamp rat with an average maximal age of 2.42 years