It is hard to guess what a Moss-forest rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moss-forest rat (Stenomys niobe) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Moss-forest rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Stenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Moss-forest rats have 2 babies per litter.
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 moss-forest rat (Rattus niobe) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Moss-forest rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Western heather vole with a weight of 25 grams
- Golden spiny mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Insular vole with a weight of 66 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- European pine vole with a weight of 17 grams
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 613 grams
- Fraternal hill rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Desert mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Little Indian field mouse with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Moss-forest rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Stenomys niobe:
- Andean big-eared mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Uinta chipmunk bringing 51 grams to the scale
- North African elephant shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Pel’s pouched bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Moss-forest rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Moss-forest rat:
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Moss-forest rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Moss-forest rat: