It is hard to guess what a Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat (Isothrix bistriata) on average weights 445 grams (0.98 lbs).
The Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Isothrix). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.4 cm (1′ 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 yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat, Isothrix bistriata, is a South American brush-tailed rat species from the family Echimyidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and Venezuela.They are nocturnal and arboreal animals found in lowland evergreen rainforest, probably restricted to igapó and várzea habitats. Sometimes they can be seen at the entrances of their dens, in tree holes (specially hollow palms) on the borders of rivers.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 167 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat with a weight of 114 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Isothrix bistriata:
- Pteropus gilliardi bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Kashmir flying squirrel bringing 510 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
- Ashy-headed flying fox bringing 524 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Horse-tailed squirrel bringing 358 grams to the scale
- Bunker’s woodrat bringing 375 grams to the scale
- King rat (animal) bringing 420 grams to the scale