It is hard to guess what a Drab Atlantic tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Drab Atlantic tree-rat (Echimys dasythrix) on average weights 260 grams (0.57 lbs).
The Drab Atlantic tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Echimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 29.7 cm (1′ 0″).
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 Drab Atlantic tree-rat, Phyllomys dasythrix, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Drab Atlantic tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Napo spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- O’Connell’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Common punaré with a weight of 298 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Montane bamboo rat with a weight of 382 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Drab Atlantic tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echimys dasythrix:
- Strong tuco-tuco bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Pteropus temmincki bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale