It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys chacoensis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys chacoensis (Oligoryzomys chacoensis) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys chacoensis is from the family Muridae (genus: Oligoryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 meter (6′ 7″).
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.
Oligoryzomys chacoensis, also known as the Chacoan colilargo or Chacoan pygmy rice rat, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in the Gran Chaco region of southeastern Bolivia, southwestern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Its karyotype has 2n = 58 and FNa = 74.It is one of the hosts of the hantavirus serotype Bermejo.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys chacoensis
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Luzon montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster with a weight of 21 grams
- Common vole with a weight of 26 grams
- New Guinean rat with a weight of 133 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys chacoensis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys chacoensis:
- Minute fruit bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Eastern pygmy possum bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Striped field mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Southern grasshopper mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Juliana’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- North African gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale