It is hard to guess what a Slender rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender rat (Rattus verecundus) on average weights 97 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Slender rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). 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:
- Allen’s cotton rat with a weight of 174 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Large vlei rat with a weight of 192 grams
- Dressy Oldfield mouse with a weight of 76 grams
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Maned rat with a weight of 755 grams
- Scolomys melanops with a weight of 26 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
- Tondano rat with 4 babies per litter
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Slender rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus verecundus:
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- White-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Hero shrew bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Betsileo short-tailed rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Santander dwarf squirrel bringing 99 grams to the scale
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 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:
- Southern flying squirrel with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 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: