It is hard to guess what a Dusky rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dusky rat (Rattus colletti) on average weights 146 grams (0.32 lbs).
The Dusky rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19 cm (0′ 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 dusky rat (Rattus colletti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the monsoonal subcoastal plains of the Northern Territory, Australia.Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this animal Mulbu, a name applied to other rodent species. It is eaten (Reverend Peterson Nganjmirra, personal comment in Goodfellow, Fauna of Kakadu and the Top End, 1993).
Animals of the same family as a Dusky rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Romanian hamster with a weight of 97 grams
- Eversmann’s hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Venezuelan climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Ivory Coast rat with a weight of 52 grams
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chinese striped hamster with 6 babies per litter
- Muskrat with a weight of 992 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Andean vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Dollman’s melomys with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus colletti:
- Peleng tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Palawan treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Holochilus brasiliensis bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 166 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale