How big does a King rat (animal) get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown King rat (animal) (Uromys rex) reaches an average size of 26 cm (0′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 420 grams (0.93 lbs). The King rat (animal) (genus: Uromys) is a member of the family Muridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The king rat (Uromys rex) is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Like the two other species of rodent in Guadalcanal, it is placed in the genus Uromys. It lives in trees and is larger than Uromys porculus but smaller than Uromys imperator.
Animals of the same family as a King rat (animal)
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Siberian zokor with 4 babies per litter
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with a weight of 419 grams
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Mamore arboreal rice rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Eastern shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Buffoon striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a King rat (animal)
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as King rat (animal):
- Samar squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Colombian weasel with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Giant white-tailed rat with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mariana fruit bat with a size of 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Stoat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Striped bandicoot with a size of 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same weight as a King rat (animal)
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uromys rex:
- Short-tailed chinchilla bringing 499 grams to the scale
- San Luis tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Bagobo rat bringing 395 grams to the scale
- Little red flying fox bringing 379 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tuco-tuco bringing 489 grams to the scale
- Southern tuco-tuco bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Masoala fork-marked lemur bringing 409 grams to the scale
- JunÃn red squirrel bringing 482 grams to the scale
- Vanuatu flying fox bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale