It is hard to guess what a Greedy olalla rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greedy olalla rat (Olallamys edax) on average weights 206 grams (0.45 lbs).
The Greedy olalla rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Olallamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 meter (6′ 7″).
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 greedy olalla rat (Olallamys edax) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.The species name edax is a Latin word meaning greedy.
Animals of the same family as a Greedy olalla rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Common punaré with a weight of 298 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Montane bamboo rat with a weight of 382 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Pacific spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Greedy olalla rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Olallamys edax:
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Small sun squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Arizona cotton rat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Shrew-faced squirrel bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale