It is hard to guess what a Northern Luzon giant cloud rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (Phloeomys pallidus) on average weights 1.75 kg (3.85 lbs).
The Northern Luzon giant cloud rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Phloeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 38.2 cm (1′ 4″).
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 northern Luzon giant cloud rat (Phloeomys pallidus), also known as the northern Luzon slender-tailed cloud rat, is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is only found in Luzon, the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Northern Luzon giant cloud rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Maned rat with a weight of 755 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
- King rat (animal) with a weight of 420 grams
- Lesser bandicoot rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 25 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 102 grams
- Pale field rat with a weight of 169 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern Luzon giant cloud rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phloeomys pallidus:
- Striped hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.01 kilos (4.43 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus with a weight of 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten with a weight of 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs)
- Back-striped weasel with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Mountain cuscus with a weight of 1.82 kilos (4.01 lbs)
- Pel’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- European rabbit with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern Luzon giant cloud rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern Luzon giant cloud rat:
- Tres Marias rabbit with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Spotted linsang with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cape gray mongoose with a size of 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tiger quoll with a size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- American mink with a size of 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Woodlark cuscus with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)