It is hard to guess what a Mimic tree rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mimic tree rat (Xenuromys barbatus) on average weights 975 grams (2.15 lbs).
The Mimic tree rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Xenuromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.5 cm (1′ 1″).
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 mimic tree rat, rock-dwelling giant rat, or rock-dwelling rat (Xenuromys barbatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Mimic tree rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Savi’s pine vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Thespian grass mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Spiny Ceram rat with a weight of 306 grams
- Murree vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Paramo hocicudo with a weight of 41 grams
- San Lorenzo mouse with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Mimic tree rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Xenuromys barbatus:
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs)
- Spotted linsang with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Southern brown bandicoot bringing 825 grams to the scale
- Poncelet’s giant rat with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Moonrat bringing 787 grams to the scale
- Eastern woolly lemur with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
- Peruvian night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Eastern barred bandicoot bringing 903 grams to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose bringing 791 grams to the scale
- Green ringtail possum with a weight of 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mimic tree rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mimic tree rat:
- Yellow-bellied weasel with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Western quoll with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Back-striped weasel with a size of 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)