It is hard to guess what a Long-footed water rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-footed water rat (Leptomys elegans) on average weights 83 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Long-footed water rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Leptomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Long-footed water rats have 1 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 long-footed water rat (Leptomys elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the mountains of southern Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest.
Animals of the same family as a Long-footed water rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Oecomys concolor with a weight of 54 grams
- Darien harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser hamster-rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 31 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat with a weight of 37 grams
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Long-footed water rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leptomys elegans:
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Angolan rousette bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Spectacled dormouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Oecomys trinitatis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Pohle’s fruit bat bringing 69 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-footed water rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-footed water rat:
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nimba otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silvery mole-rat with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pale field rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-footed water rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Long-footed water rat: