It is hard to guess what a White-tailed olalla rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-tailed olalla rat (Olallamys albicauda) on average weights 274 grams (0.6 lbs).
The White-tailed olalla rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Olallamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 meter (6′ 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-tailed olalla rat (Olallamys albicauda) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae.It is a medium-sized rat with a reddish-brown dorsum, a whitish venter, and a tail characterized by a whitish tip.It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a White-tailed olalla rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Pacific spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Napo spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- Goeldi’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Steere’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Greedy olalla rat with a weight of 206 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-tailed olalla rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Olallamys albicauda:
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Northern glider bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Red slender loris bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest rat bringing 253 grams to the scale