It is hard to guess what a Kaiser’s rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kaiser’s rock rat (Aethomys kaiseri) on average weights 90 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Kaiser’s rock rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Aethomys). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Kaiser’s rock 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.
Kaiser’s rock rat (Aethomys kaiseri) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Animals of the same family as a Kaiser’s rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil with a weight of 17 grams
- Brown deer mouse with a weight of 66 grams
- Melanomys zunigae with a weight of 53 grams
- Cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Tanezumi rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Unalaska collared lemming with 2 babies per litter
- Palawan spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Mesquite mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kaiser’s rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aethomys kaiseri:
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Siberian chipmunk bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Northern red-sided opossum bringing 79 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Kaiser’s rock rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Kaiser’s rock rat: