It is hard to guess what a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat (Proechimys dimidiatus) on average weights 168 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Soft-spined Atlantic spiny 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 soft-spined Atlantic spiny-rat, Trinomys dimidiatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is endemic to Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Magdalena spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Montane bamboo rat with a weight of 382 grams
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 400 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys dimidiatus:
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher bringing 172 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Shipton’s mountain cavy bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat:
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guyenne spiny rat with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-tailed antsangy with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat: