It is hard to guess what a Masked white-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Masked white-tailed rat (Uromys hadrourus) on average weights 149 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Masked white-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Uromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Masked white-tailed 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 masked white-tailed rat (Uromys hadrourus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia, in north-east Queensland.Descriptive English common names for this species include Masked White-tailed Rat and Thornton Peak Uromys. During the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They failed to identify any indigenous Australian names for U. hadrourus, so recommended the adoption of the name Kuku, the Kuku-Yalanki name for any rat. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what extent it will be adopted.
Animals of the same family as a Masked white-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cape York melomys with a weight of 70 grams
- Japanese grass vole with a weight of 29 grams
- Silky mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Maximowicz’s vole with 6 babies per litter
- Black-eared mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Western heather vole with a weight of 25 grams
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Florida mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Mindoro striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Masked white-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uromys hadrourus:
- Tropical ground squirrel bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Stein’s rat bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
- Desert woodrat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 166 grams to the scale
- Guam flying fox bringing 153 grams to the scale
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 147 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Masked white-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Masked white-tailed rat:
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sundevall’s jird with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pale field rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Masked white-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Masked white-tailed rat: