It is hard to guess what a Oecomys superans weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys superans (Oecomys superans) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Oecomys superans 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 superans, also known as the large oecomys or foothill arboreal rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It is found along the eastern slope of the Andes in southern Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru and east into the Amazon basin, including parts of Brazil. Its distribution is poorly known, and it may also occur further south, into Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys superans
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Hoffmann’s rat with 1 babies per litter
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per litter
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with a weight of 419 grams
- Murree vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
- Florida mouse with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys superans
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys superans:
- Angolan rousette bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Slender squirrel bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Big bonneted bat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys legatus bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Oryzomys gorgasi bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Mashona mole-rat bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Big-eared climbing rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- San Quintin kangaroo rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale