It is hard to guess what a Carpentarian rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Carpentarian rock rat (Zyzomys palatilis) on average weights 123 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Carpentarian rock rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Zyzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Carpentarian rock rat (Zyzomys palatalis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Carpentarian rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Peters’s mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Gray-tailed vole with a weight of 29 grams
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Charming climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Blick’s grass rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Blackish grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- African marsh rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse with a weight of 170 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender rat with a weight of 97 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Carpentarian rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zyzomys palatilis:
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Brants’s whistling rat bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Bush rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Unexpected cotton rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antelope squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Southern pocket gopher bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 122 grams to the scale