It is hard to guess what a Dark-tailed tree rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dark-tailed tree rat (Niviventer cremoriventer) on average weights 71 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Dark-tailed tree rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Niviventer). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.9 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Dark-tailed tree 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 dark-tailed tree rat or Sundaic arboreal niviventer (Niviventer cremoriventer) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found on the Malay Peninsula (Thailand, Malaysia), including some offshore islands (Myanmar: Mergui Archipelago), and in parts of the Malay Archipelago (Singapore; Indonesia: Anambas Islands, Sumatra, Nias, Belitung (=Billiton), Bangka Island, Java, Bali; Borneo and some its offshore islands). It might be a species complex.Dark-tailed tree rat is a common species that lives both arboreally and on the ground in primary forest habitats and also secondary wooded habitats, but not outside forests. Such habitats are being lost, especially in the lowland areas, representing a threat to this species.
Animals of the same family as a Dark-tailed tree rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 102 grams
- Dusky-footed woodrat with a weight of 219 grams
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Brown rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat with a weight of 511 grams
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Dusky rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Taiwan field mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Buxton’s jird with 5 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Dark-tailed tree rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Niviventer cremoriventer:
- Oecomys paricola bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys bolivaris bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Target rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Bunny rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Japanese mole bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Woodland Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dark-tailed tree rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dark-tailed tree rat:
- Long-footed treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindoro striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Web-footed tenrec with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dark-tailed tree rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Dark-tailed tree rat: