It is hard to guess what a Palawan spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Palawan spiny rat (Maxomys panglima) on average weights 159 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Palawan spiny rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Maxomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 cm (0′ 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.
The Palawan spiny rat (Maxomys panglima) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Palawan spiny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Winkelmann’s mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Eligmodontia typus with a weight of 17 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- White-bellied rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Cutch rat with 5 babies per litter
- Large vlei rat with a weight of 192 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Naked-eared deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- California red tree mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Social vole with a weight of 48 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Palawan spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Maxomys panglima:
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Nectomys squamipes bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Mendoza tuco-tuco bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Collared pika bringing 129 grams to the scale
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Daurian pika bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Plateau pika bringing 160 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Palawan spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Palawan spiny rat:
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Caledonia flying fox with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Web-footed tenrec with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)