It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed giant rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) on average weights 349 grams (0.77 lbs).
The Long-tailed giant rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Leopoldamys). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.8 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Long-tailed giant rats have 4 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-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed giant rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eastern woodrat with a weight of 252 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a weight of 60 grams
- Colombian forest mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- California red tree mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Mimic tree rat with a weight of 975 grams
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed giant rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leopoldamys sabanus:
- Silvery marmoset bringing 376 grams to the scale
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Stoat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Shiny guinea pig bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Sucre spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy bringing 361 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed giant rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-tailed giant rat:
- Striped treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Texas pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Striped possum with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-tailed giant rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Long-tailed giant rat:
- Turkestan rat
- Brown four-eyed opossum
- Plains pocket mouse
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse
- Tarbagan marmot
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Etruscan shrew
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Long-tailed dunnart
- Pygmy spotted skunk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-tailed giant rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-tailed giant rat:
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Honey possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years