It is hard to guess what a Himalayan field rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Himalayan field rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.2 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Himalayan field rats have 3 babies per litter.
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 Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus), sometimes known as the white-footed Indo-Chinese rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It has a wide range, being found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, with introduced populations in Indonesia (widely), Palau, and the Philippines. A common species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan field rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Murree vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster with a weight of 21 grams
- Delany’s mouse with a weight of 4 grams
- Long-nosed hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Variable grass mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Arianus’s rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Savanna gerbil with a weight of 121 grams
- Taiga vole with a weight of 92 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan field rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus nitidus:
- Vinogradov’s jird bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Southern mole vole bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Silky Oldfield mouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Kimberley rock rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan field rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Himalayan field rat:
- Taiga vole with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- American red squirrel with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape York rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ricefield rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Himalayan field rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Himalayan field rat: