It is hard to guess what a Philippine forest rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Philippine forest rat (Rattus everetti) on average weights 253 grams (0.56 lbs).
The Philippine forest rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Philippine forest rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in the Philippines, and is located throughout the archipelago. The scientific name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett. The Chanum Torres is widespread throughout its range and feeds on a diet of worms and insects. There are no major threats to the species, which has been found to be competitively superior to introduced Rattus species.
Animals of the same family as a Philippine forest rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Singing vole with a weight of 41 grams
- Eastern harvest mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Goldman’s water mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Andean gerbil mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- San MartÃn Island woodrat with a weight of 240 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Wood mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Silver mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Pale gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine forest rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus everetti:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 267 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Golden angwantibo bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Magdalena spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Northeast African mole-rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Sucre spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Sonoran woodrat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel bringing 277 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Philippine forest rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Philippine forest rat:
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Javanese flying squirrel with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plateau pika with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)