It is hard to guess what a Squirrel-toothed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Squirrel-toothed rat (Anisomys imitator) on average weights 511 grams (1.13 lbs).
The Squirrel-toothed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Anisomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.4 cm (0′ 11″).
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 squirrel-toothed rat (Anisomys imitator), also known as the New Guinea giant rat, powerful-toothed rat, uneven-toothed rat, or narrow-toothed giant rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Anisomys and is found in New Guinea.The species has been known to eat karuka nuts (Pandanus julianettii), and growers will put platforms or other obstacles on the trunks of the trees to keep the pests out.
Animals of the same family as a Squirrel-toothed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ricefield rat with a weight of 165 grams
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a weight of 622 grams
- Oecomys rutilus with a weight of 73 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat with a weight of 37 grams
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black rat with a weight of 142 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Squirrel-toothed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Anisomys imitator:
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 613 grams to the scale
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew bringing 535 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- European hamster bringing 429 grams to the scale
- Marbled polecat bringing 594 grams to the scale
- Eastern gray squirrel bringing 546 grams to the scale
- White-faced spiny tree-rat bringing 610 grams to the scale
- Pemba flying fox bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Golden bandicoot bringing 425 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Squirrel-toothed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Squirrel-toothed rat:
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy rabbit with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Solomons flying fox with a size of 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brush rabbit with a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black flying fox with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Colombian weasel with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mariana fruit bat with a size of 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)