It is hard to guess what a Slender rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender rat (Stenomys verecundus) on average weights 109 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Slender rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Stenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Slender rats have 2 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 slender rat (Rattus verecundus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Slender rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-clawed mole vole with a weight of 75 grams
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least forest mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Day’s grass mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Japen rat with a weight of 380 grams
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Slender rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Stenomys verecundus:
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Bare-backed rousette bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Taiga vole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Darling Downs hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender rat:
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Goldman’s woodrat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray slender opossum with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Slender rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Slender rat: