It is hard to guess what a Sage’s rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sage’s rock rat (Aconaemys sagei) on average weights 96 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Sage’s rock rat is from the family Octodontidae (genus: Aconaemys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Sage’s rock rat (Aconaemys sagei) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae.It is found in Argentina and possibly Chile.
Animals of the same family as a Sage’s rock rat
We found other animals of the Octodontidae family:
- Coruro with a weight of 101 grams
- Moon-toothed degu with a weight of 200 grams
- Chilean rock rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Bridges’s degu with a weight of 162 grams
- Common degu with a weight of 203 grams
- Mountain degu with a weight of 154 grams
- Mountain viscacha rat with a weight of 124 grams
- Plains viscacha rat with a weight of 86 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sage’s rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aconaemys sagei:
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Libyan jird bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Allen’s chipmunk bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Peruvian Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Romanian hamster bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale