It is hard to guess what a Isarog shrew-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Isarog shrew-rat (Rhynchomys isarogensis) on average weights 122 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Isarog shrew-rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rhynchomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Isarog shrew-rat or Mt Isarog shrew-rat (Rhynchomys isarogensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Isarog shrew-rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cerradomys subflavus with a weight of 49 grams
- Phillips’s gerbil with a weight of 127 grams
- Rudd’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Northern bog lemming with a weight of 21 grams
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Toad mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 57 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Isarog shrew-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhynchomys isarogensis:
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Ochre bush squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Greater tree mouse bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Woolly mouse opossum bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Silky Oldfield mouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Daurian pika bringing 131 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Isarog shrew-rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Isarog shrew-rat:
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mountain spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)