It is hard to guess what a Oryzomys gorgasi weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oryzomys gorgasi (Oryzomys gorgasi) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Oryzomys gorgasi is from the family Muridae (genus: Oryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.2 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Oryzomys gorgasi, also known as Gorgas’s oryzomys or Gorgas’s rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Oryzomys of family Cricetidae. First collected as a living animal in 1967, it is known from only a few localities, including a freshwater swamp in the lowlands of northwestern Colombia and a mangrove islet in northwestern Venezuela. It formerly occurred on the island of CuraƧao off northwestern Venezuela; this extinct population has been described as a separate species, Oryzomys curasoae, but does not differ morphologically from mainland populations.Oryzomys gorgasi is a medium-sized, brownish species with large, semiaquatically specialized feet. It differs from other Oryzomys species in several features of its skull. Its diet includes crustaceans, insects, and plant material, and parasitic nematodes infect it. The species is listed as “Endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to destruction of its habitat and competition with the introduced black rat (Rattus rattus).
Animals of the same family as a Oryzomys gorgasi
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Black-tailed gerbil with a weight of 123 grams
- Mexican vole with a weight of 34 grams
- Andean swamp rat with a weight of 64 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per litter
- Black-tailed tree rat with a weight of 125 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oryzomys gorgasi
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oryzomys gorgasi:
- Dibbler bringing 72 grams to the scale
- One-striped opossum bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s spiny rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Red mouse opossum bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Marmoset rat bringing 70 grams to the scale