It is hard to guess what a Bunny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bunny rat (Reithrodon auritus) on average weights 79 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Bunny rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodon). They can live for up to 5.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Bunny 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.
The bunny rat, or hairy-soled conyrat (Reithrodon auritus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern South America.
Animals of the same family as a Bunny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Hastings River mouse with a weight of 95 grams
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Monte gerbil mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda with a weight of 52 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe lemming with a weight of 20 grams
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bunny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodon auritus:
- Townsend’s chipmunk bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Small hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Shaw’s jird bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bunny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bunny rat:
- Long-tailed vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-nosed potoroo with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bunny rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bunny rat:
- Cape golden mole
- Chinese bamboo rat
- Southern grasshopper mouse
- Dolorous grass mouse
- Alpine pine vole
- Lesser mole-rat
- Sable
- Greater cane rat
- Monito del monte
- San Diego pocket mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bunny rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bunny rat:
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Eastern mole with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.83 years
- White-bellied duiker with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Derby’s woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Coruro with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with an average maximal age of 5.33 years