It is hard to guess what a Sonoran woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sonoran woodrat (Neotoma phenax) on average weights 227 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Sonoran woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.6 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Sonoran woodrats 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 Sonoran woodrat (Neotoma phenax) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Sonoran woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-footed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Glacier rat with a weight of 64 grams
- Flat-haired mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Nelson’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Great Key Island giant rat with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bolaños woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Akodon azarae with a weight of 25 grams
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sonoran woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma phenax:
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat bringing 196 grams to the scale
- Gambian sun squirrel bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Mira climbing rat bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Chinese zokor bringing 257 grams to the scale
- Particolored flying squirrel bringing 255 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sonoran woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sonoran woodrat:
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tropical ground squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-eared hedgehog with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sonoran woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Sonoran woodrat: