It is hard to guess what a Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat (Mesomys hispidus) on average weights 175 grams (0.39 lbs).
The Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Mesomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 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.
Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat, Mesomys hispidus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat with a weight of 445 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Colombian spiny rat with a weight of 312 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per litter
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- O’Connell’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesomys hispidus:
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Four-striped ground squirrel bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Painted treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Kintampo rope squirrel bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Ruddy treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Unexpected cotton rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat:
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pale field rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Collared tuco-tuco with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)