It is hard to guess what a Dormouse tufted-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dormouse tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus myoxinus) on average weights 69 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Dormouse tufted-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Eliurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 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 Dormouse tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus myoxinus) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Dormouse tufted-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Long-tailed mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- Mahomet mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Rajah spiny rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dormouse tufted-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliurus myoxinus:
- Nephelomys auriventer bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Spectacled dormouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Philippine dawn bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s spiny rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed mouse bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dormouse tufted-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dormouse tufted-tailed rat:
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prairie vole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)