It is hard to guess what a Cape York rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cape York rat (Rattus leucopus) on average weights 200 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Cape York rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.9 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Cape York 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 Cape York rat (Rattus leucopus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in southern New Guinea, in both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and in Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Cape York rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rakali with a weight of 626 grams
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Flat-headed vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster with a weight of 21 grams
- Southern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Small hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cape York rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus leucopus:
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Reddish tuco-tuco bringing 173 grams to the scale
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat bringing 178 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat bringing 172 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cape York rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cape York rat:
- Common gundi with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brooke’s squirrel with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Four-toed elephant shrew with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert woodrat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Stoat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cape York rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Cape York rat: