It is hard to guess what a King rat (animal) weights. But we have the answer:
An adult King rat (animal) (Uromys rex) on average weights 420 grams (0.93 lbs).
The King rat (animal) is from the family Muridae (genus: Uromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26 cm (0′ 11″).
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 king rat (Uromys rex) is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Like the two other species of rodent in Guadalcanal, it is placed in the genus Uromys. It lives in trees and is larger than Uromys porculus but smaller than Uromys imperator.
Animals of the same family as a King rat (animal)
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Masked white-tailed rat with a weight of 149 grams
- Northeast African mole-rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Mahomet mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Desert woodrat with a weight of 144 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Japen rat with a weight of 380 grams
- Arctic lemming with a weight of 78 grams
- Emin’s pouched rat bringing 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) to the scale
- Brants’s whistling rat with a weight of 129 grams
Animals with the same weight as a King rat (animal)
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uromys rex:
- Little red flying fox bringing 379 grams to the scale
- Mahogany glider bringing 361 grams to the scale
- Mountain giant Sunda rat bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy bringing 361 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Bagobo rat bringing 395 grams to the scale
- Variegated squirrel bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Southern African hedgehog bringing 337 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a King rat (animal)
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as King rat (animal):
- Rakali with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Pichi with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Allen’s woodrat with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Florida naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)