It is hard to guess what a Hinde’s rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hinde’s rock rat (Aethomys hindei) on average weights 141 grams (0.31 lbs).
The Hinde’s rock rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Aethomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Hinde’s rock rats have 2 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.
Hinde’s rock rat (Aethomys hindei) is a species of rodent in the family Muridaefound in Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Hinde’s rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Chiapan climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Transcaspian vole with 2 babies per litter
- African grass rat with a weight of 95 grams
- Flat-headed vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 48 grams
- Robert’s snow vole with 1 babies per litter
- Squirrel-toothed rat with a weight of 511 grams
- Andean mouse with a weight of 69 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hinde’s rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aethomys hindei:
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Echigo mole bringing 163 grams to the scale
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Chilean rock rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Giant kangaroo rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- White-eared cotton rat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Tropical ground squirrel bringing 155 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Hinde’s rock rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Hinde’s rock rat: