It is hard to guess what a Melanomys zunigae weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Melanomys zunigae (Melanomys zunigae) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Melanomys zunigae is from the family Muridae (genus: Melanomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Melanomys zunigae, also known as Zuniga’s melanomys or Zuniga’s dark rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Melanomys of family Cricetidae. Known only from a small region of coastal Peru, it is listed as “critically endangered” by the IUCN and may even be extinct.
Animals of the same family as a Melanomys zunigae
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thomas’s pine vole with 4 babies per litter
- European snow vole with a weight of 48 grams
- Hoffmann’s rat with 1 babies per litter
- Korean field mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole with a weight of 75 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird with a weight of 56 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi with a weight of 43 grams
- Large vlei rat with a weight of 192 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Melanomys zunigae
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melanomys zunigae:
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys bolivaris bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Greater noctule bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed climbing mouse bringing 57 grams to the scale