It is hard to guess what a Oecomys bicolor weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys bicolor (Oecomys bicolor) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Oecomys bicolor is from the family Muridae (genus: Oecomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″). Usually, Oecomys bicolors have 2 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.
Oecomys bicolor, also known as the white-bellied oecomys or bicolored arboreal rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It has a wide distribution in the Amazon biome, occurring in northwestern Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, eastern Colombia, much of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, and extends into eastern Panama, but it may contain more than one species.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys bicolor
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Philippine forest rat with a weight of 253 grams
- Chestnut climbing mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Aztec mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Oecomys rex with a weight of 73 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Black-tailed tree rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys bicolor
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys bicolor:
- White-striped free-tailed bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Least chipmunk bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Northern hopping mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Tschudi’s slender opossum bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Oecomys bicolor
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Oecomys bicolor: