It is hard to guess what a Northern water rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern water rat (Paraleptomys rufilatus) on average weights 54 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Northern water rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paraleptomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.6 cm (0′ 5″).
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 water rat (Paraleptomys rufilatus) is an endangered species of rodent in the family Muridae found in the highlands of New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Northern water rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat with a weight of 180 grams
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- White-ankled mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Kemp’s thicket rat with a weight of 75 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern water rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraleptomys rufilatus:
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Andean rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Panamint chipmunk bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Mozambique thicket rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Social vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Murree vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys melanotis bringing 50 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern water rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern water rat:
- Spotted ground squirrel with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brown mouse lemur with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed gymnure with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)