It is hard to guess what a White-tailed antsangy weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-tailed antsangy (Brachytarsomys albicauda) on average weights 205 grams (0.45 lbs).
The White-tailed antsangy is from the family Muridae (genus: Brachytarsomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.5 cm (0′ 9″).
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-tailed antsangy (Brachytarsomys albicauda) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a White-tailed antsangy
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 31 grams
- Big-eared swamp rat with a weight of 95 grams
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Handleyomys intectus with a weight of 60 grams
- Wood mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Little wood mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Lakeland Downs mouse with a weight of 17 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-tailed antsangy
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachytarsomys albicauda:
- Mottled tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Sangihe tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Spectral bat bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Ear-spot squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Peleng tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Moon-toothed degu bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Samar squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-tailed antsangy
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-tailed antsangy:
- American red squirrel with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)