It is hard to guess what a Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat (Rattus morotaiensis) on average weights 148 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). 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 Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat (Rattus morotaiensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Halmahera Islands of Indonesia, including Morotai, Halmahera, and Batjan islands.
Animals of the same family as a Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Chestnut tree mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dent’s vlei rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Pinyon mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Long-footed water rat with a weight of 83 grams
- Mimic tree rat with a weight of 975 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus morotaiensis:
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Malayan field rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Fraternal hill rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Stephen’s woodrat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 167 grams to the scale
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Botta’s pocket gopher bringing 123 grams to the scale