It is hard to guess what a Voalavoanala weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Voalavoanala (Gymnuromys roberti) on average weights 97 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Voalavoanala is from the family Muridae (genus: Gymnuromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Voalavoanalas 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.
The voalavoanala (Gymnuromys roberti) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is the only species in the genus Gymnuromys. It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural habitat is tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Voalavoanala
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 78 grams
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Tatra pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- Oecomys superans with a weight of 73 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Argentine hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Cape gerbil with a weight of 92 grams
- Black-eared mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Crab-eating rat with a weight of 66 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Voalavoanala
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gymnuromys roberti:
- Water vole (North America) bringing 92 grams to the scale
- African groove-toothed rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- European mole bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Voalavoanala
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Voalavoanala:
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Phillips’s gerbil with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- California chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Echigo mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Voalavoanala
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Voalavoanala: