It is hard to guess what a Short-tailed spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-tailed spiny rat (Proechimys bolivianus) on average weights 285 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Short-tailed spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 42.8 cm (1′ 5″).
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-tailed spiny-rat, Proechimys brevicauda, or Huallaga spiny rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Short-tailed spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 220 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 201 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 400 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 314 grams
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Magdalena spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Short-tailed spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys bolivianus:
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Kinabalu squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
- Japanese squirrel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat bringing 301 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale