It is hard to guess what a Large New Guinea spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large New Guinea spiny rat (Rattus praetor) on average weights 194 grams (0.43 lbs).
The Large New Guinea spiny rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.5 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Large New Guinea spiny rats have 4 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 New Guinea spiny rat (Rattus praetor) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Large New Guinea spiny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Venezuelan climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Delicate mouse with 1 babies per litter
- Long-tailed vole with a weight of 44 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Nectomys rattus with a weight of 249 grams
- Florida naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Handleyomys chapmani with a weight of 49 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Brants’s whistling rat with a weight of 129 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large New Guinea spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus praetor:
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Washington ground squirrel bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Bryant’s woodrat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Bolivian chinchilla rat bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Dusky bushbaby bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Mira climbing rat bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Ricefield rat bringing 165 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Large New Guinea spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large New Guinea spiny rat:
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Collared tuco-tuco with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden hamster with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern flying squirrel with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red bush squirrel with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed weasel with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Large New Guinea spiny rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Large New Guinea spiny rat: