It is hard to guess what a Painted tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Painted tree-rat (Echimys pictus) on average weights 519 grams (1.14 lbs).
The Painted tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Echimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.3 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 painted tree-rat (Callistomys pictus) is a species of spiny rat from Brazil, restricted to north-eastern Bahia in eastern Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Callistomys.
Animals of the same family as a Painted tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 30 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 518 grams
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per litter
- Armored rat with a weight of 281 grams
- Greedy olalla rat with a weight of 206 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Painted tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echimys pictus:
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel bringing 479 grams to the scale
- Cape ground squirrel bringing 572 grams to the scale
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Columbian ground squirrel bringing 471 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Darien pocket gopher bringing 437 grams to the scale
- Black and rufous elephant shrew bringing 423 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Checkered elephant shrew bringing 424 grams to the scale
- New Guinea waterside rat bringing 526 grams to the scale