It is hard to guess what a Brants’s whistling rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brants’s whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii) on average weights 129 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Brants’s whistling rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Parotomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 51.7 cm (1′ 9″). On average, Brants’s whistling rats can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 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.
Brants’s whistling rat or Brants’ whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii) is one of two species of murid rodent in the genus Parotomys. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and pastureland. It was first described in 1834 by the Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith who named it in honour of the Dutch zoologist and author Anton Brants.
Animals of the same family as a Brants’s whistling rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Garlepp’s mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus with a weight of 49 grams
- Cairo spiny mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Greater hamster-rat with 4 babies per litter
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 48 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brants’s whistling rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Parotomys brantsii:
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 147 grams to the scale
- Masked flying fox bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Fraternal hill rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Brants’s whistling rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Brants’s whistling rat: