It is hard to guess what a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus) on average weights 57 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Lophuromys). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.2 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Yellow-spotted brush-furred rats have 2 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 yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. The population in Ethiopia is isolated and can be found at high altitudes up to 4,500 m above sea level.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- White-bellied rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Slender harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Forrest’s mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 102 grams
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Phillips’s gerbil with a weight of 127 grams
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus with a weight of 25 grams
- White-tailed antsangy with a weight of 205 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lophuromys flavopunctatus:
- Robbins’s tateril bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys laticeps bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Rock dormouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat:
- Delicate slender opossum with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stirton’s deer mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-tailed gymnure with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plains viscacha rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat: