It is hard to guess what a Gregarious short-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gregarious short-tailed rat (Brachyuromys ramirohitra) on average weights 92 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Gregarious short-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Brachyuromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.2 cm (0′ 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 gregarious short-tailed rat (Brachyuromys ramirohitra) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Gregarious short-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Chinese zokor with a weight of 257 grams
- African smoky mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Mountain spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Plains harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Four-striped grass mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Chibchan water mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gregarious short-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachyuromys ramirohitra:
- Pale leaf-eared mouse bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Allen’s chipmunk bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Inca Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gregarious short-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gregarious short-tailed rat:
- Anthony’s woodrat with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vinogradov’s jird with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Taiga vole with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- One-striped opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)