It is hard to guess what a Bushy-tailed woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) on average weights 286 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Bushy-tailed woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). It is usually born with about 14 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.9 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Bushy-tailed woodrats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 bushy-tailed woodrat, or packrat (Neotoma cinerea) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Canada and the United States.Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, dry savanna, temperate shrubland, and temperate grassland.The bushy-tailed woodrat is the original “pack rat”, the species in which the trading habit is most pronounced. It has a strong preference for shiny objects and will drop whatever it may be carrying in favor of a coin or a spoon.
Animals of the same family as a Bushy-tailed woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Small-toothed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Golden Oldfield mouse with a weight of 88 grams
- Common rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 89 grams
- Silent grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Irenomys with a weight of 43 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per litter
- Smith’s vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Smoke-bellied rat with 4 babies per litter
- Candango mouse with a weight of 97 grams
- Ecuadorian grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma cinerea:
- Southern African hedgehog bringing 337 grams to the scale
- Shiny guinea pig bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Chinese zokor bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Strong tuco-tuco bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bushy-tailed woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bushy-tailed woodrat:
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland ringtail possum with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bushy-tailed woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bushy-tailed woodrat: