It is hard to guess what a Mindoro striped rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mindoro striped rat (Chrotomys mindorensis) on average weights 152 grams (0.34 lbs).
The Mindoro striped rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Chrotomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 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 Mindoro striped rat (Chrotomys mindorensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mindoro striped rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Mexican vole with a weight of 34 grams
- Great Key Island giant rat with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Osgood’s mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Akodon albiventer with a weight of 26 grams
- Romanian hamster with a weight of 97 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mindoro striped rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrotomys mindorensis:
- Leadbeater’s possum bringing 137 grams to the scale
- Peleng tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Striped treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Western nesomys bringing 155 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Long-footed treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mindoro striped rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mindoro striped rat:
- Slender squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dwarf flying fox with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Guinean rat with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)