It is hard to guess what a Spiny Ceram rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spiny Ceram rat (Rattus feliceus) on average weights 306 grams (0.67 lbs).
The Spiny Ceram rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 spiny Ceram rat (Rattus feliceus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Seram, Indonesia, which it is named after.
Animals of the same family as a Spiny Ceram rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tawny deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Oreoryzomys with a weight of 60 grams
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil with a weight of 123 grams
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Oecomys superans with a weight of 73 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Spiny Ceram rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus feliceus:
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Shiny guinea pig bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Robust tuco-tuco bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale