It is hard to guess what a Giant naked-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Giant naked-tailed rat (Uromys anak) on average weights 745 grams (1.64 lbs).
The Giant naked-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Uromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 31 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Giant naked-tailed rats have 4 babies per litter.
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 giant naked-tailed rat (Uromys anak) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It lives in tropical forests, wetlands, and in degraded forests.
Animals of the same family as a Giant naked-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a weight of 19 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Siberian zokor with a weight of 225 grams
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 18 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus with a weight of 49 grams
- Red-nosed mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Nyika climbing mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Percival’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Tawny deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Giant naked-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uromys anak:
- Cape dune mole-rat bringing 804 grams to the scale
- Brown titi bringing 851 grams to the scale
- Black-capped squirrel monkey bringing 802 grams to the scale
- Arctic ground squirrel bringing 747 grams to the scale
- Dark spiny tree-rat bringing 627 grams to the scale
- Giant white-tailed rat bringing 644 grams to the scale
- Rock cavy bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Striped polecat bringing 812 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 873 grams to the scale
- Eastern white-eared giant rat bringing 867 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Giant naked-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Giant naked-tailed rat:
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- San José brush rabbit with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black giant squirrel with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- American mink with a size of 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Pygmy rabbit with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Giant naked-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Giant naked-tailed rat: