It is hard to guess what a Isarog striped shrew-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Isarog striped shrew-rat (Chrotomys gonzalesi) on average weights 140 grams (0.31 lbs).
The Isarog striped shrew-rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Chrotomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 cm (0′ 7″).
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 striped shrew-rat or Mount Isarog striped rat (Chrotomys gonzalesi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in the Philippines.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Isarog striped shrew-rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan field rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Notiomys with a weight of 21 grams
- Fraternal hill rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- White-throated woodrat with a weight of 208 grams
- Painted big-eared mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- House mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole with a weight of 75 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Isarog striped shrew-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrotomys gonzalesi:
- Steppe pika bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Perote ground squirrel bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Ricefield rat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Jungle palm squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Southern three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- American pika bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 152 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Isarog striped 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 striped shrew-rat:
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Reddish tuco-tuco with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Congo rope squirrel with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Temotu flying fox with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)