It is hard to guess what a Greater stick-nest rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater stick-nest rat (Leporillus conditor) on average weights 329 grams (0.73 lbs).
The Greater stick-nest rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Leporillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.2 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Greater stick-nest 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 greater stick-nest rat, house-building rat (Leporillus conditor) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. They are about the size of a small rabbit and construct large nests of interwoven sticks. Once widespread across southern Australia, the population was reduced after colonisation to one island; the species has been reintroduced to protected and monitored areas.
Animals of the same family as a Greater stick-nest rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- European pine vole with a weight of 17 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater stick-nest rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leporillus conditor:
- Armored rat bringing 281 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- Tumbala climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat bringing 394 grams to the scale
- White-winged flying fox bringing 343 grams to the scale
- Highland tuco-tuco bringing 327 grams to the scale
- Common marmoset bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed muskrat bringing 265 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater stick-nest rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater stick-nest rat:
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Allen’s woodrat with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater stick-nest rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Greater stick-nest rat: