It is hard to guess what a Oecomys paricola weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys paricola (Oecomys paricola) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Oecomys paricola is from the family Muridae (genus: Oecomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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 paricola, also known as the Brazilian oecomys, Brazilian arboreal rice rat, or South Amazonian arboreal rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It is found in central Brazil south of the Amazon, where it lives in lowland tropical rainforest.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys paricola
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse with a weight of 111 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Coues’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- White-footed vole with a weight of 23 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Oecomys superans with a weight of 73 grams
- Lesser tree mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Günther’s vole with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys paricola
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys paricola:
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Blind mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Insular vole bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Peruvian Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Northern red-sided opossum bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- North American brown lemming bringing 69 grams to the scale