It is hard to guess what a Large mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys rattoides) on average weights 209 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Large mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Mammelomys). 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:
- Thespian grass mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Père David’s vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ungava collared lemming with a weight of 57 grams
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Lundomys with a weight of 238 grams
- Western red-backed vole with a weight of 18 grams
- Pilliga mouse with a weight of 10 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 Mammelomys rattoides:
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher bringing 172 grams to the scale
- Allen’s cotton rat bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Brazilian squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Deppe’s squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat bringing 172 grams to the scale
- Dusky bushbaby bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 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:
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern woodrat with a size of 21.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mindanao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
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: