It is hard to guess what a Stephen’s woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Stephen’s woodrat (Neotoma stephensi) on average weights 149 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Stephen’s woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). It is usually born with about 10 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.1 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Stephen’s woodrats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Stephen’s woodrat (Neotoma stephensi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Stephen’s woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis with a weight of 28 grams
- Little wood mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per litter
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- European snow vole with a weight of 48 grams
- Southern bog lemming with a weight of 28 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Dusky hopping mouse with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Stephen’s woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma stephensi:
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Javanese flying squirrel bringing 156 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 167 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Stephen’s woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Stephen’s woodrat:
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Voalavoanala with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Goldman’s woodrat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Giant kangaroo rat with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-striped dasyure with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Stephen’s woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Stephen’s woodrat: