It is hard to guess what a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys platyops) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Lowland mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.8 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Lowland 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.
The lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys platyops) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Vinogradov’s jird with a weight of 117 grams
- Indian gerbil with a weight of 138 grams
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a weight of 356 grams
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird with a weight of 56 grams
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
- Hastings River mouse with a weight of 95 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Handleyomys alfaroi with a weight of 33 grams
- Chinese zokor with a weight of 257 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys platyops:
- Chelemys macronyx bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s rousette bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Sage’s rock rat bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Eastern mole bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Golden hamster bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Candango mouse bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lowland 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 Lowland mosaic-tailed rat:
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Texas antelope squirrel with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat: