It is hard to guess what a Magdalena spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Magdalena spiny rat (Proechimys magdalenae) on average weights 284 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Magdalena spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Magdalena spiny rat (Proechimys magdalenae) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Magdalena spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Armored rat with a weight of 281 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Bolivian bamboo rat with a weight of 729 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Speckled spiny tree-rat with a weight of 283 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Napo spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Magdalena spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys magdalenae:
- Unstriped ground squirrel bringing 317 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Red squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Squirrel glider bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Microcebus coquereli bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Red slender loris bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Greater stick-nest rat bringing 329 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 315 grams to the scale