It is hard to guess what a Red rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red rock rat (Aethomys chrysophilus) on average weights 81 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Red rock rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Aethomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Red rock rats have 3 babies per litter.
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 red rock rat, or red veld rat, (Aethomys chrysophilus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southern Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Red rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ruwenzori thicket rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a weight of 31 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Gerbil mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Singing vole with a weight of 41 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii with a weight of 34 grams
- Mindomys with a weight of 60 grams
- Red spiny rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with a weight of 71 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aethomys chrysophilus:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Oryzomys couesi bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Montane Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red rock rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red rock rat:
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silvery mole-rat with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red rock rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Red rock rat: