It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed mountain rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed mountain rat (Niviventer rapit) on average weights 79 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Long-tailed mountain rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Niviventer). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.9 cm (0′ 7″).
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 mountain rat (Niviventer rapit) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Borneo and found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Recorded at elevations of 940–3,360 m (3,080–11,020 ft) above sea level, it is a poorly known species but presumably common, assumed to inhabit forests and scrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed mountain rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Small-toothed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis with a weight of 73 grams
- Michoacan deer mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Arianus’s rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Western shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Golden hamster with a weight of 98 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed mountain rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Niviventer rapit:
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Bushveld gerbil bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Southern big-eared mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Oecomys speciosus bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Pygmy treeshrew bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Acacia rat bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed mountain 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 mountain rat:
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)