It is hard to guess what a Van Deusen’s rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Van Deusen’s rat (Rattus vandeuseni) on average weights 67 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Van Deusen’s rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Rattus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Van Deusen’s rats 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.
Van Deusen’s rat (Rattus vandeuseni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is endemic to the mountains of southeast Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Van Deusen’s rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Central pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus with a weight of 49 grams
- Long-nosed hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Günther’s vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Lesser tree mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Krebs’s fat mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per litter
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with a weight of 41 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Van Deusen’s rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rattus vandeuseni:
- Cape York melomys bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Southern big-eared mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys talamancae bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Spectacled dormouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s pouched mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Eastern rock elephant shrew bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Common mole-rat bringing 74 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Van Deusen’s rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Van Deusen’s rat:
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Van Deusen’s rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Van Deusen’s rat: