It is hard to guess what a White-tipped tufted-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-tipped tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus penicillatus) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The White-tipped tufted-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Eliurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 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-tipped tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus penicillatus) is a rodent endemic to Madagascar. It is known from only two specimens, one collected from Ampitambe forest in 1895 or 1896 and the second in 2000. It is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as an endangered species due to habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a White-tipped tufted-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rwanda African mole-rat with 1 babies per litter
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per litter
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
- African smoky mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Jalapan pine vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Small vesper mouse with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-tipped tufted-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliurus penicillatus:
- Slender rat bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Woolly mouse opossum bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Robert’s hocicudo bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Spy hocicudo bringing 81 grams to the scale