It is hard to guess what a Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat (Proechimys myosuros) on average weights 285 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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 mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny-rat, Trinomys myosuros, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 518 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Greedy olalla rat with a weight of 206 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 168 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys myosuros:
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Northern glider bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 266 grams to the scale
- Speckled spiny tree-rat bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Salta tuco-tuco bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale