It is hard to guess what a Desert woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) on average weights 144 grams (0.32 lbs).
The Desert woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.3 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Desert woodrats can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) is a species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America.
Animals of the same family as a Desert woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Argentine hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 57 grams
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Eastern harvest mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Aztec mouse with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma lepida:
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 167 grams to the scale
- Echigo mole bringing 163 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed tree rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Alpine pika bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed ground squirrel bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Painted treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Harris’s antelope squirrel bringing 127 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert woodrat:
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern red-sided opossum with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Desert woodrat: