It is hard to guess what a Owl’s spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Owl’s spiny rat (Carterodon sulcidens) on average weights 114 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Owl’s spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Carterodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Owl’s spiny rat, Carterodon sulcidens, is a rodent species from South America in the family Echimyidae. It is found in Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Carterodon.
Animals of the same family as a Owl’s spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Common punaré with a weight of 298 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 314 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a weight of 291 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 201 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat with a weight of 445 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Owl’s spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Carterodon sulcidens:
- Dent’s vlei rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Hispid cotton rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Ochre bush squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale