It is hard to guess what a Brazilian spiny tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brazilian spiny tree-rat (Makalata didelphoides) on average weights 398 grams (0.88 lbs).
The Brazilian spiny tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Makalata). They can live for up to 3.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Brazilian spiny tree-rats have 1 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.
The Brazilian spiny tree rat (Makalata didelphoides) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, and Trinidad & Tobago where it lives in lowland tropical rainforest. There is also a population in Ecuador which is referable either to this species or to Makalata macrurus. It is nocturnal, and eats seeds.
Animals of the same family as a Brazilian spiny tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 502 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Goeldi’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat with a weight of 600 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brazilian spiny tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Makalata didelphoides:
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Brown four-eyed opossum bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Texas pocket gopher bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed squirrel bringing 427 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Horse-tailed squirrel bringing 358 grams to the scale
- Northern quoll bringing 477 grams to the scale
- Emperor tamarin bringing 409 grams to the scale
- Montane bamboo rat bringing 382 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Brazilian spiny tree-rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Brazilian spiny tree-rat:
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
- Orange leaf-nosed bat
- Northern sportive lemur
- Hamadryas baboon
- Bearded seal
- Siberian musk deer
- Long-fingered triok
- Greater noctule bat
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Hispaniolan solenodon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brazilian spiny tree-rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brazilian spiny tree-rat:
- Brown antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Water opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years