It is hard to guess what a Woodland thicket rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Woodland thicket rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Grammomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 4.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Woodland thicket rats have 3 babies per litter.
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 woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, and urban areas.
Animals of the same family as a Woodland thicket rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Oecomys rutilus with a weight of 73 grams
- Lakeland Downs mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Arianus’s rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Oligoryzomys griseolus with a weight of 25 grams
- Akodon affinis with a weight of 24 grams
- Mamore arboreal rice rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Reed vole with 5 babies per litter
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland thicket rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Grammomys dolichurus:
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Small Luzon forest mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Mole-like rice tenrec bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Meadow vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Fat mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woodland thicket rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodland thicket rat:
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-tailed mole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese mole shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woodland thicket rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Woodland thicket rat:
- Cotton mouse
- Mazama pocket gopher
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse
- Chestnut climbing mouse
- Red-nosed mouse
- Capybara
- Insular vole
- Hooper’s mouse
- Western red-backed vole
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland thicket rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland thicket rat:
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Great Basin pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Derby’s woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years