It is hard to guess what a Jaliscan cotton rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jaliscan cotton rat (Sigmodon mascotensis) on average weights 120 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Jaliscan cotton rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Sigmodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 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 Jaliscan cotton rat or Mexican cotton rat (Sigmodon mascotensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico. They commonly have brown fur with white fur on the belly. They are ground-dwelling and prefer open habitats.
Animals of the same family as a Jaliscan cotton rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Chiapan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Krebs’s fat mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Lesser hamster-rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 32 grams
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a weight of 92 grams
- Nigerian gerbil with a weight of 29 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jaliscan cotton rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sigmodon mascotensis:
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Greater tree mouse bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Sugar glider bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Sado mole bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Malayan field rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Collared pika bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Brants’s whistling rat bringing 129 grams to the scale