It is hard to guess what a White-eared cotton rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-eared cotton rat (Sigmodon leucotis) on average weights 132 grams (0.29 lbs).
The White-eared cotton rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Sigmodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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-eared cotton rat (Sigmodon leucotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a White-eared cotton rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southern grasshopper mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Acacia rat with a weight of 77 grams
- Puebla deer mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Target rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Robbins’s tateril with a weight of 47 grams
- Norway lemming with a weight of 67 grams
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-eared cotton rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sigmodon leucotis:
- Yellow-haired hill rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Madagascan flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Persian jird bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Bush rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed tree rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Steppe pika bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Mindoro striped rat bringing 152 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-eared cotton rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-eared cotton rat:
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindoro striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tropical ground squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)