It is hard to guess what a Lesser bandicoot rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) on average weights 227 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Lesser bandicoot rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Bandicota). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4 cm (0′ 2″). On average, Lesser bandicoot rats can have babies 5 times per year with a litter size of 7.
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 lesser bandicoot rat, Sindh rice rat or Indian mole-rat (Bandicota bengalensis) is a giant rat of Southern Asia, not related to the true bandicoots which are marsupials. They can be up to 40 cm long (including the tail), are considered a pest in the cereal crops and gardens of India and Sri Lanka, and emit piglike grunts when attacking. The name bandicoot is derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku, which translates loosely to “pig-rat”. Like the better known rats in the genus Rattus, bandicoot rats are members of the family Muridae. Their fur is dark or (rarely) pale brown dorsally, occasionally blackish, and light to dark grey ventrally. The head-body length is around 250 mm, and the uniformly dark tail is shorter than the head-body length.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser bandicoot rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Central rock rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Goldman’s water mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Nephelomys levipes with a weight of 60 grams
- Taiga vole with a weight of 92 grams
- White-tailed antsangy with a weight of 205 grams
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser bandicoot rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bandicota bengalensis:
- Deppe’s squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Salta tuco-tuco bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Calabar angwantibo bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Ochre mole-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Fijian monkey-faced bat bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Robust tuco-tuco bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser bandicoot rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Lesser bandicoot rat: