It is hard to guess what a Plain brush-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Plain brush-tailed rat (Isothrix pagurus) on average weights 105 grams (0.23 lbs).
The Plain brush-tailed rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Isothrix). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.4 cm (1′ 2″).
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 Plain brush-tailed rat, Isothrix pagurus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Plain brush-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Bristle-spined rat bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per litter
- Armored rat with a weight of 281 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Speckled spiny tree-rat with a weight of 283 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Plain brush-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Isothrix pagurus:
- Kowari bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Ghost bat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Big-eared climbing rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Pale leaf-eared mouse bringing 102 grams to the scale