It is hard to guess what a Red spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red spiny rat (Maxomys surifer) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Red spiny rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Maxomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Red spiny 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 spiny rat (Maxomys surifer) is a rodent species in the family Muridae that inhabits forests in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and on Java, Borneo and Sumatra islands. In China, it has been recorded only in Yunnan province.
Animals of the same family as a Red spiny rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Long-tailed mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- Chinese zokor with a weight of 257 grams
- Large bamboo rat bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus with a weight of 60 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Oligoryzomys microtis with a weight of 22 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Philippine forest rat with a weight of 253 grams
- Holochilus brasiliensis with a weight of 155 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Maxomys surifer:
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Short-furred dasyure bringing 161 grams to the scale
- Striped treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Mountain weasel bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Daurian pika bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Mindoro striped rat bringing 152 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red spiny rat:
- Red rock rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dwarf flying fox with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sugar glider with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Web-footed tenrec with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red spiny rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Red spiny rat: