It is hard to guess what a Malayan field rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malayan field rat (Rattus tiomanicus) on average weights 119 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Malayan field rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Malayan field rats have 3 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 Malayan field rat, Malaysian field rat or Malaysian wood rat, (Rattus tiomanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is nocturnal and mainly arboreal and is found in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Malayan field rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Argentine hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Gerbil mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Annandale’s rat with a weight of 197 grams
- South African pouched mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Philippine forest rat with a weight of 253 grams
- Lesser hamster-rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Dent’s vlei rat with a weight of 120 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan field rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus tiomanicus:
- Southern African vlei rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Lowland streaked tenrec bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Congo rope squirrel bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s rock rat bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Littledale’s whistling rat bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Fat sand rat bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Brants’s whistling rat bringing 129 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Malayan field rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Malayan field rat:
- Common gundi with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mariana fruit bat with a size of 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert woodrat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Malayan field rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Malayan field rat: