It is hard to guess what a White-bellied nesomys weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-bellied nesomys (Nesomys audeberti) on average weights 214 grams (0.47 lbs).
The White-bellied nesomys is from the family Nesomyidae (genus: Nesomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.2 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 white-bellied nesomys (Nesomys audeberti), also known as the lowland red forest rat, is a species of rat endemic to Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a White-bellied nesomys
We found other animals of the Nesomyidae family:
- Malagasy mountain mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Gray climbing mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Hairy-tailed antsangy with a weight of 219 grams
- Western nesomys with a weight of 155 grams
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a weight of 93 grams
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Lovat’s climbing mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Brants’s climbing mouse with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-bellied nesomys
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nesomys audeberti:
- Gray slender loris bringing 254 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- San MartÃn Island woodrat bringing 240 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Shrew-faced squirrel bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Arizona woodrat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale