It is hard to guess what a Cuvier’s spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cuvier’s spiny rat (Proechimys cuvieri) on average weights 339 grams (0.75 lbs).
The Cuvier’s spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
Cuvier’s spiny-rat, Proechimys cuvieri, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Suriname.
Animals of the same family as a Cuvier’s spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat with a weight of 627 grams
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Boyacá spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cuvier’s spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys cuvieri:
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Red-legged sun squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Mutable sun squirrel bringing 390 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Pygmy slow loris bringing 343 grams to the scale
- Aldabra flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale