It is hard to guess what a Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat (Echimys unicolor) on average weights 439 grams (0.97 lbs).
The Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Echimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.2 cm (1′ 0″).
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 short-furred Atlantic tree-rat or Wagner’s Atlantic tree rat (Phyllomys unicolor), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Fischer’s guiara with a weight of 188 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 502 grams
- Napo spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 220 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 201 grams
- Painted tree-rat with a weight of 519 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echimys unicolor:
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Mariana fruit bat bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed chinchilla bringing 480 grams to the scale
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat bringing 356 grams to the scale
- Azara’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Red bush squirrel bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tamarin bringing 493 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale