It is hard to guess what a Harrington’s rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Harrington’s rat (Desmomys harringtoni) on average weights 90 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Harrington’s rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Desmomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.8 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Harrington’s rat (Desmomys harringtoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Ethiopia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Harrington’s rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bibimys torresi with a weight of 28 grams
- Day’s grass mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Chibchan water mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Western shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Southern mole vole with a weight of 80 grams
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Zygodontomys brunneus with a weight of 75 grams
- Fraternal hill rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi with a weight of 58 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Harrington’s rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Desmomys harringtoni:
- Ochre bush squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Pará spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- San Quintin kangaroo rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Oecomys trinitatis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Romanian hamster bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Greater tree mouse bringing 105 grams to the scale