It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys destructor weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys destructor (Oligoryzomys destructor) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys destructor 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 destructor, also known as Tschudi’s colilargo or the destructive pygmy rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found along the eastern Andes from southern Colombia, through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia into northern Argentina. Its karyotype has 2n = 60 and FNa = 76.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys destructor
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Bryant’s woodrat with a weight of 182 grams
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Crested-tailed deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Ecuadorian grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Cairo spiny mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with a weight of 59 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird with a weight of 117 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys destructor
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys destructor:
- Zacatecan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Balochistan gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Forest dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Koford’s grass mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Pleasant bolo mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale