It is hard to guess what a Maned rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Maned rat (Lophiomys imhausi) on average weights 755 grams (1.66 lbs).
The Maned rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Lophiomys). They can live for up to 7.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 59 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Maned 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 maned rat or crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine.
Animals of the same family as a Maned rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Western pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Monte gerbil mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 18 grams
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Akodon albiventer with a weight of 26 grams
- Mozambique thicket rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Edward’s swamp rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Highveld gerbil with a weight of 89 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Maned rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lophiomys imhausi:
- Long-nosed bandicoot bringing 720 grams to the scale
- Giant white-tailed rat bringing 644 grams to the scale
- Eastern barred bandicoot bringing 903 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Northern sportive lemur bringing 760 grams to the scale
- Spectacled flying fox bringing 759 grams to the scale
- Moonrat bringing 787 grams to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine bringing 832 grams to the scale
- Javan mongoose bringing 758 grams to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel bringing 650 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Maned rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Maned rat:
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Senegal bushbaby
- Taphozous philippinensis
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Puna mouse
- Tickell’s bat
- Grivet
- Long-nosed potoroo
- Southern marsupial mole
- Little red brocket
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Maned rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Maned rat:
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Moonrat with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Rakali with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Jamaican coney with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- House mouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Least chipmunk with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years