It is hard to guess what a Colombian spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Colombian spiny rat (Proechimys canicollis) on average weights 312 grams (0.69 lbs).
The Colombian spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 42.8 cm (1′ 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 Colombian spiny-rat (Proechimys canicollis) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Colombian spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Goeldi’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat with a weight of 445 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 394 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Plain brush-tailed rat with a weight of 105 grams
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Colombian spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys canicollis:
- Napo spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Amazon weasel bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
- Rodrigues flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Long-eared hedgehog bringing 332 grams to the scale
- Brown-eared woolly opossum bringing 351 grams to the scale