It is hard to guess what a Kimberley rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kimberley rock rat (Zyzomys woodwardi) on average weights 95 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Kimberley rock rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Zyzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Kimberley 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.
The Kimberley rock rat (Zyzomys woodwardi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia. It is specifically found in northern tropical part of the northern territory and adjacent Kimberley division of west Australia in high altitude closed forest. Biologist predicted that Zyzomys Woodwardi speciated from Zyzomys Arugurus around 8000 years ago due to a large flood that increased the wetness of the environment. In response to the wetter environment Zyzomys Woodwardi had a better Darwinian fitness and outcompeted Zyzomys Arugurus due to new selective pressures and over time the two species were separated by large vine thickets and sandstone barriers.
Animals of the same family as a Kimberley rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Large bamboo rat bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Banana climbing mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Darien harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Mexican volcano mouse with a weight of 44 grams
- Nectomys squamipes with a weight of 185 grams
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Lusitanian pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- Goldman’s water mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Greater tree mouse with a weight of 105 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kimberley rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zyzomys woodwardi:
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antelope squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Paramo Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Gregarious short-tailed rat bringing 92 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Kimberley rock rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kimberley rock rat:
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Kimberley rock rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Kimberley rock rat: