It is hard to guess what a Drab Atlantic tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Drab Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys dasythrix) on average weights 260 grams (0.57 lbs).
The Drab Atlantic tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Phyllomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
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:
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 518 grams
- Gray-footed spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per litter
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 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 Phyllomys dasythrix:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel bringing 307 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Fijian monkey-faced bat bringing 256 grams to the scale
- African striped weasel bringing 308 grams to the scale
- Transbaikal zokor bringing 259 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s squirrel bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale