It is hard to guess what a Greater bandicoot rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) on average weights 583 grams (1.29 lbs).
The Greater bandicoot rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Bandicota). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Greater bandicoot rats have 6 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 greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.It can grow to about 27–29 cm without including the tail which tail can grow to 28 cm. These should not be confused with marsupial bandicoots which inhabit Australia and neighbouring New Guinea, which were named after the bandicota rats.
Animals of the same family as a Greater bandicoot rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Transandinomys talamancae with a weight of 54 grams
- Bunny rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Sulawesi giant rat with a weight of 325 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per litter
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Western shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Malagasy giant rat bringing 1.18 kilos (2.6 lbs) to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Greater bandicoot rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bandicota indica:
- Northern quoll bringing 477 grams to the scale
- Ashy-headed flying fox bringing 524 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tamarin bringing 493 grams to the scale
- Central African oyan bringing 570 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s marmoset bringing 558 grams to the scale
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 612 grams to the scale
- Columbian ground squirrel bringing 471 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Moustached tamarin bringing 557 grams to the scale
- Yellow mongoose bringing 694 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater bandicoot rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Greater bandicoot rat: