It is hard to guess what a Saunder’s vlei rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Saunder’s vlei rat (Otomys saundersiae) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Saunder’s vlei rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Otomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Saunder’s vlei rat (Otomys saundersiae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Saunder’s vlei rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- European water vole with a weight of 120 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a weight of 57 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 25 grams
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat with a weight of 397 grams
- Cursor grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 189 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 80 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Saunder’s vlei rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Otomys saundersiae:
- Musso’s fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied caenolestid bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Royle’s mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Large-eared free-tailed bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Moupin pika bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Brazilian shrew mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Chinese dormouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Blackish deer mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale