It is hard to guess what a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys lorentzii) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paramelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.5 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed 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.
Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys lorentzii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.According to the Kalam people of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, it helps spread karuka seeds.
Animals of the same family as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Temminck’s mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Single-striped grass mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Northern bog lemming with a weight of 21 grams
- Fossorial giant rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Sonoran harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Drylands vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per litter
- Djoongari with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramelomys lorentzii:
- Ruddy treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Botta’s pocket gopher bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Northern pika bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Pale field rat bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Maxomys baeodon bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat:
- Pale field rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Banks flying fox with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brooke’s squirrel with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat: