It is hard to guess what a Mountain spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain spiny rat (Maxomys alticola) on average weights 159 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Mountain spiny rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Maxomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 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 mountain spiny rat (Maxomys alticola) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain spiny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
- Eastern harvest mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- African pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Spy hocicudo with a weight of 81 grams
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bunker’s woodrat with a weight of 375 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus with a weight of 49 grams
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per litter
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Maxomys alticola:
- Mountain weasel bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Reddish tuco-tuco bringing 173 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Short-furred dasyure bringing 161 grams to the scale
- Four-striped ground squirrel bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Buller’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Attwater’s pocket gopher bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Brazilian squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Siberian flying squirrel bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain spiny rat:
- Temotu flying fox with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Giant kangaroo rat with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African hedgehog with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s vole with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)