It is hard to guess what a New Guinean rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Guinean rat (Rattus novaeguineae) on average weights 133 grams (0.29 lbs).
The New Guinean rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, New Guinean rats have 5 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 New Guinean rat (Rattus novaeguineae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in parts of central Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a New Guinean rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Round-tailed muskrat with a weight of 265 grams
- Steppe lemming with a weight of 20 grams
- Eligmodontia typus with a weight of 17 grams
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- New Holland mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a New Guinean rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus novaeguineae:
- Masked white-tailed rat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Leadbeater’s possum bringing 137 grams to the scale
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
- Daurian pika bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Jungle palm squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Guinean rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Guinean rat:
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kinabalu squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a New Guinean rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a New Guinean rat: