It is hard to guess what a Guyenne spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Guyenne spiny rat (Proechimys warreni) on average weights 285 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Guyenne spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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 Guyenne spiny-rat, Proechimys guyannensis, or Cayenne spiny rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Guyenne spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat with a weight of 445 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Guyenne spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys warreni:
- Red-tailed squirrel bringing 319 grams to the scale
- Chinese zokor bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Boyacá spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Tawny tuco-tuco bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
- Guyanan spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale