It is hard to guess what a Lesser tufted-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus minor) on average weights 57 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Lesser tufted-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Eliurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.8 cm (0′ 6″).
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 tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus minor) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser tufted-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eversmann’s hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Perote mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Western chestnut mouse with a weight of 70 grams
- Cape York melomys with a weight of 70 grams
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Crab-eating rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Long-nosed hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Gleaning mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 66 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser tufted-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliurus minor:
- Senegal gerbil bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Crab-eating rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Ord’s kangaroo rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- California vole bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Golden-brown mouse lemur bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser tufted-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser tufted-tailed rat:
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)