It is hard to guess what a Shining thicket rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shining thicket rat (Grammomys poensis) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Shining thicket rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Grammomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.1 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:
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Djoongari with a weight of 43 grams
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus with a weight of 13 grams
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus with a weight of 27 grams
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a weight of 42 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 poensis:
- Pen-tailed treeshrew bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater bulldog bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Siberian brown lemming bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Great evening bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Mongolian gerbil bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Shining thicket rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Shining thicket rat:
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern three-striped opossum with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
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: