It is hard to guess what a Moss-forest rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moss-forest rat (Rattus niobe) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Moss-forest rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 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:
- Mamore arboreal rice rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Montane wood mouse with a weight of 36 grams
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Allen’s wood mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Unexpected cotton rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per litter
- Edward’s swamp rat with a weight of 63 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 Rattus niobe:
- Western mastiff bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Plateau mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Silent grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Gould’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed mole bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 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:
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
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: