It is hard to guess what a Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat (Mesomys leniceps) on average weights 108 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Mesomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 woolly-headed spiny tree-rat (Mesomys leniceps) is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Peru.The etymology of the species name corresponds to the Latin word leniceps constructed from lēnis meaning calm, gentle, and the suffix -ceps meaning headed.
Animals of the same family as a Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
- Armored rat with a weight of 281 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Guaira spiny rat with a weight of 349 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesomys leniceps:
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Allen’s chipmunk bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed hopping mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian rock rat bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Biak glider bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- White-bellied rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale