It is hard to guess what a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys burtoni) on average weights 71 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Grassland mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Grassland mosaic-tailed rats have 2 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 grassland mosaic-tailed rat, or grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In Australia it is found along the northern coast from Kimberley to New South Wales. In the Top End it is often found in pandanus (P. spiralis). Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this animal Mulbu.
Animals of the same family as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Mindoro striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with a weight of 25 grams
- Tiny fat mouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Western heather vole with a weight of 25 grams
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Malayan field rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys burtoni:
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Southern flying squirrel bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Long-footed water rat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Red hocicudo bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Common mole-rat bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Ungava collared lemming bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Grassland mosaic-tailed rat:
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rümmler’s brush mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat: