It is hard to guess what a Littledale’s whistling rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Littledale’s whistling rat (Parotomys littledalei) on average weights 126 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Littledale’s whistling rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Parotomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 51.7 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Littledale’s whistling rats have 2 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.
Littledale’s whistling rat (Parotomys littledalei) is one of two species of Murid rodent in the genus Parotomys. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and temperate desert.
Animals of the same family as a Littledale’s whistling rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sulawesi giant rat with a weight of 325 grams
- Handleyomys intectus with a weight of 60 grams
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per litter
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 46 grams
- Grey red-backed vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Webb’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 61 grams
- Robbins’s tateril with a weight of 47 grams
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a weight of 186 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Littledale’s whistling rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Parotomys littledalei:
- Rough-haired golden mole bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Southern three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Woolly mouse opossum bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Littledale’s whistling rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Littledale’s whistling rat: