It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys nigripes weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys nigripes (Oligoryzomys eliurus) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys nigripes 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 nigripes, also known as the black-footed colilargo or the black-footed pygmy rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. Oligoryzomys nigripes is a species that has been further divided into different sister taxa throughout history.It is found in different countries in South America. It is a large species with long ears, dark yellow to dark brown upperparts, sharply delimited from the whitish underparts, and often a pink girdle on the chest. This species of rat spends much of its life among the trees. The karyotype is 2n = 62, FNa = 78–82.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat with a weight of 148 grams
- Ungava collared lemming with a weight of 57 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Jico deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Silver mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per litter
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys nigripes
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys eliurus:
- Ethiopian thicket rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Intelligent grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Ash-grey mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Hazel dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- African giant shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale