It is hard to guess what a Southern Plains woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern Plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus) on average weights 255 grams (0.56 lbs).
The Southern Plains woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 2.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.3 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Southern Plains woodrats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 Southern Plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northwest Mexico and in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Southern Plains woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tres Marías Island mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Zacatecan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse with a weight of 170 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird with a weight of 117 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 48 grams
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern Plains woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma micropus:
- Patagonian weasel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Washington ground squirrel bringing 215 grams to the scale
- San Martín Island woodrat bringing 240 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Big-eared woodrat bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern Plains woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern Plains woodrat:
- Long-footed treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Striped possum with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern Plains woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern Plains woodrat:
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Highveld gerbil
- Red panda
- Highveld gerbil
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Desert bandicoot
- African black shrew
- Silvery mole-rat
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern Plains woodrat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern Plains woodrat:
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Australian swamp rat with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Asian house shrew with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- White-footed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years