It is hard to guess what a White-throated woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-throated woodrat (Neotoma albigula) on average weights 208 grams (0.46 lbs).
The White-throated woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 7.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.6 cm (0′ 7″). On average, White-throated woodrats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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-throated woodrat (Neotoma albigula) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found from central Mexico north to Utah and Colorado in the United States. It is primarily a western species in the United States, extending from central Texas west to southeastern California. Populations east of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas, previously considered to be variants of the white-throated woodrat, have since 1988 been assigned to the white-toothed woodrat (Neotoma leucodon).The animal lives mostly in the Upper and Lower Sonoran life zones, occurring from pinyon-juniper woodland in higher country to desert habitats at lower elevations.As with other species of woodrats, the white-throated woodrat constructs middens of a variety of materials such as sticks, cactus parts, and miscellaneous debris. An above-ground chamber within the midden contains a nest lined with grasses and kept free of feces. In non-rocky areas, the den usually is several feet in diameter and most commonly built around the base of a shrub that gives additional cover. In areas of rocky outcrops, crevices often are utilized, with sticks and other materials preventing free access to the nesting chamber.Molecular data suggest that this species separated from other species of the Neotoma floridana group (Neotoma floridana, Neotoma micropus, Neotoma leucodon) about 155,000 years ago during the Illinoian Stage of the Pleistocene. This is consistent with the oldest known fossils from Slaton, Texas. This rodent is a common fossil in Southwestern cave faunas, with over 20 fossil localities of Pleistocene age known from New Mexico alone.
Animals of the same family as a White-throated woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Mexican harvest mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Bolivian vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Ivory Coast rat with a weight of 52 grams
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Arizona woodrat with a weight of 200 grams
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Southwestern water vole with a weight of 220 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 82 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-throated woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma albigula:
- Tucuman tuco-tuco bringing 217 grams to the scale
- Spectral bat bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Gambian sun squirrel bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Palawan treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-throated woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-throated woodrat:
- Angoni vlei rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-throated woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a White-throated woodrat:
- Greater bilby
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- California red tree mouse
- Rock hyrax
- Western barbastelle
- Southern yellow bat
- American badger
- Geoffroy’s tamarin
- Javanese flying squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-throated woodrat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-throated woodrat:
- Red-necked pademelon with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years
- Plains pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Common kusimanse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Mongolian gazelle with an average maximal age of 7 years