It is hard to guess what a Luzon striped rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Luzon striped rat (Chrotomys whiteheadi) on average weights 152 grams (0.34 lbs).
The Luzon striped rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Chrotomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 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 Luzon striped rat (Chrotomys whiteheadi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest.
Animals of the same family as a Luzon striped rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Desert woodrat with a weight of 144 grams
- Dalton’s mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Nectomys squamipes with a weight of 185 grams
- Maximowicz’s vole with 6 babies per litter
- Notiomys with a weight of 21 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Neacomys guianae with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Luzon striped rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrotomys whiteheadi:
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Chilean rock rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Maxomys baeodon bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s rock rat bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Harris’s antelope squirrel bringing 127 grams to the scale
- Magdalena rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- White-eared cotton rat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Luzon striped rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Luzon striped rat:
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-eared chipmunk with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-throated woodrat with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)