It is hard to guess what a Goldman’s woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Goldman’s woodrat (Neotoma goldmani) on average weights 198 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Goldman’s woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Goldman’s woodrats have 1 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.
Goldman’s woodrat (Neotoma goldmani) is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico throughout the Mexican Plateau, stretching from Southeast Chihuahua to South San Luis Potosi and North Queretaro. The plateau is an average 5,988 ft. above sea level and covers a land area of 232,388 sq. miles.N. goldmani is restricted to rocky and desert habitats and shelters itself in crevices. It exhibits a karyotype that qualifies it as a more primitive species than the N. mexicana.It is currently under no immediate threat, but has experienced a decrease in population due to habitat changes occurring throughout the Mexican Plateau area, a very highly populated area, which includes the states of Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Jalisco, and Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Goldman’s woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Tondano rat with 4 babies per litter
- Least forest mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Caucasian snow vole with 5 babies per litter
- White-bellied rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per litter
- Lesser tree mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Cape spiny mouse with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Goldman’s woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma goldmani:
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Strong tuco-tuco bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Mexican woodrat bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Common degu bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Goldman’s woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Goldman’s woodrat:
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red rock rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Goldman’s woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Goldman’s woodrat: