It is hard to guess what a Ghana rufous-nosed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ghana rufous-nosed rat (Oenomys ornatus) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Ghana rufous-nosed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Oenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 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 Ghana rufous-nosed rat (Oenomys ornatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
Animals of the same family as a Ghana rufous-nosed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Luzon montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Greater mole-rat with a weight of 470 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Grey red-backed vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Silent grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
- Oligoryzomys griseolus with a weight of 25 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Melanomys caliginosus with a weight of 41 grams
- Typical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Ghana rufous-nosed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oenomys ornatus:
- Asian garden dormouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brunneus bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Dressy Oldfield mouse bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Western chestnut mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Siskiyou chipmunk bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Pale leaf-eared mouse bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Big-eared swamp rat bringing 95 grams to the scale