It is hard to guess what a Shining thicket rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shining thicket rat (Grammomys rutilans) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Shining thicket rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Grammomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Shining thicket rats have 1 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 shining thicket rat (Grammomys poensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
Animals of the same family as a Shining thicket rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Northern pygmy mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with a weight of 419 grams
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a weight of 196 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Slender rat with a weight of 97 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Shining thicket rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Grammomys rutilans:
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Naked mole-rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Single-striped grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Neuquén grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Lukolela swamp rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Variable grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Shining thicket rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Shining thicket rat: