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How much does a Lesser stick-nest rat weight?

It is hard to guess what a Lesser stick-nest rat weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Lesser stick-nest rat (Leporillus apicalis) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).

The Lesser stick-nest rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Leporillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.3 cm (0′ 8″).

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 average adult weight of a Lesser stick-nest rat is 150 grams (0.33 lbs)

The lesser stick-nest rat or white-tipped stick-nest rat (Leporillus apicalis) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae. It lived in central Australia where it built nests of sticks that accumulate over years and can become very large. The last confirmed sighting of this rat was in 1933 although there is a credible report of a sighting in 1970. In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed it as “critically endangered”, suggesting that it may yet survive in remote areas of unsurveyed territory, but revised its evaluation to “extinct” again in 2016, based on an assessment in 2012.

Animals of the same family as a Lesser stick-nest rat

We found other animals of the Muridae family:

Animals with the same weight as a Lesser stick-nest rat

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leporillus apicalis:

Animals with the same size as a Lesser stick-nest rat

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser stick-nest rat: