It is hard to guess what a Large mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rattoides) on average weights 210 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Large mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.4 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Large mosaic-tailed rats have 1 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 large mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys rattoides) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mamore arboreal rice rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Nikolaus’s mouse with a weight of 52 grams
- Large Japanese field mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi with a weight of 58 grams
- Père David’s vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Tundra vole with a weight of 33 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Pale gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys rattoides:
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Arizona cotton rat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Somali bushbaby bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Hairless bat bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Ear-spot squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large mosaic-tailed rat:
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Javanese flying squirrel with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Plantain squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Large mosaic-tailed rat: