How big does a Long-footed water rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Long-footed water rat (Leptomys elegans) reaches an average size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 83 grams (0.18 lbs). A Long-footed water rat has 1 babies at once. The Long-footed water rat (genus: Leptomys) 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 long-footed water rat (Leptomys elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the mountains of southern Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest.
Animals of the same family as a Long-footed water rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Singing vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Dalton’s mouse with 5 babies per litter
- Guatemalan deer mouse with 1 babies per litter
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Drylands vesper mouse with 7 babies per litter
- Paramo Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Shining thicket rat with 1 babies per litter
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Plains harvest mouse with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Long-footed water rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-footed water rat:
- Coruro with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pale field rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-footed water rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Long-footed water rat:
- Large flying fox
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Climbing shrew
- Typical vlei rat
- Pel’s pouched bat
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Alpine musk deer
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Short-beaked echidna
Animals with the same weight as a Long-footed water rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leptomys elegans:
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Peruvian Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- California chipmunk bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Red hocicudo bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- European mole bringing 86 grams to the scale