It is hard to guess what a Ruschi’s rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ruschi’s rat (Abrawayaomys ruschii) on average weights 63 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Ruschi’s rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Abrawayaomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
Ruschi’s rat or Ruschi’s spiny mouse (Abrawayaomys ruschii) is a rodent species found in Argentina and Brazil. Some cranial features suggest it may be an archaic relative of the paramo Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys paramorum). The upper parts are greyish yellow with a darker head and yellowish-white underparts. Fine hairs are mixed with flattened and grooved spines that are most numerous on the back.
Animals of the same family as a Ruschi’s rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Zempoaltepec with a weight of 58 grams
- Webb’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 61 grams
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Siberian zokor with a weight of 225 grams
- Long-tailed giant rat with a weight of 349 grams
- Lesser bandicoot rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse with a weight of 125 grams
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ruschi’s rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Abrawayaomys ruschii:
- Underwood’s bonneted bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Madagascan rousette bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Norway lemming bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied climbing mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale