It is hard to guess what a Bush rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) on average weights 124 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Bush rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 3.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.8 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Bush rats can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is a small Australian nocturnal animal. It is an omnivore and one of the most common indigenous species of rat on the continent, found in many heathland areas of Victoria and New South Wales.
Animals of the same family as a Bush rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Mira climbing rat with a weight of 184 grams
- Carpentarian rock rat with a weight of 123 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Southern mole vole with a weight of 80 grams
- Crafty vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bush rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus fuscipes:
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Texas kangaroo rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Southern three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Malayan field rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Siberian flying squirrel bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Silky Oldfield mouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bush rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bush rat:
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Echigo mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Senegal bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Angoni vlei rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bush rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Bush rat:
- European water vole
- Great gerbil
- North African gerbil
- Smoke-bellied rat
- Side-striped jackal
- Red-cheeked dunnart
- Beach vole
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Shrew gymnure
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bush rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bush rat:
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Coast mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years