It is hard to guess what a Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat (Echimys braziliensis) on average weights 296 grams (0.65 lbs).
The Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Echimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.7 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
The orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat or red-nosed tree-rat (Phyllomys brasiliensis), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Fischer’s guiara with a weight of 188 grams
- Long-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 205 grams
- Colombian spiny rat with a weight of 312 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- O’Connell’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echimys braziliensis:
- Emily’s tuco-tuco bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Unstriped ground squirrel bringing 317 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Rodrigues flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat:
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mexican ground squirrel with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Collie’s squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Cape York rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-handed tamarin with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Golden lion tamarin with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)