It is hard to guess what a Hairy-tailed antsangy weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-tailed antsangy (Brachytarsomys villosa) on average weights 219 grams (0.48 lbs).
The Hairy-tailed antsangy is from the family Nesomyidae (genus: Brachytarsomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.6 cm (1′ 6″).
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 hairy-tailed antsangy (Brachytarsomys villosa) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-tailed antsangy
We found other animals of the Nesomyidae family:
- Western nesomys with a weight of 155 grams
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a weight of 93 grams
- Brants’s climbing mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Gray climbing mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Lovat’s climbing mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- White-bellied nesomys with a weight of 214 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed antsangy
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachytarsomys villosa:
- Pteropus temmincki bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Cameroon scaly-tail bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Argentine tuco-tuco bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Mira climbing rat bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Euphrates jerboa bringing 232 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale