It is hard to guess what a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (Batomys salomonseni) on average weights 186 grams (0.41 lbs).
The Mindanao hairy-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Batomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.5 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (Batomys salomonseni) is one of five species of rodent in the genus Batomys. It is in the diverse family Muridae. This species is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Geoxus valdivianus with a weight of 31 grams
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stella wood mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Melanomys robustulus with a weight of 53 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Mira climbing rat with a weight of 184 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Notiomys with a weight of 21 grams
- Chinese zokor with a weight of 257 grams
- Inca Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Batomys salomonseni:
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Mountain weasel bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Bryant’s woodrat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s guiara bringing 188 grams to the scale
- Cameroon scaly-tail bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Red spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mindanao hairy-tailed rat:
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Round-tailed muskrat with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Green bush squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Silky anteater with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)