How big does a Masked white-tailed rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Masked white-tailed rat (Uromys hadrourus) reaches an average size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 149 grams (0.33 lbs). A Masked white-tailed rat has 3 babies at once. The Masked white-tailed rat (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 masked white-tailed rat (Uromys hadrourus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia, in north-east Queensland.Descriptive English common names for this species include Masked White-tailed Rat and Thornton Peak Uromys. During the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They failed to identify any indigenous Australian names for U. hadrourus, so recommended the adoption of the name Kuku, the Kuku-Yalanki name for any rat. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what extent it will be adopted.
Animals of the same family as a Masked white-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Defua rat with 1 babies per litter
- Bushveld gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Long-footed water rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Allen’s woodrat with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Kemp’s grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Akodon azarae with 4 babies per litter
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Masked white-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Masked white-tailed rat:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silvery mole-rat with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spotted ground squirrel with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- California chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Masked white-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Masked white-tailed rat:
- European pine marten
- White-ankled mouse
- Crosse’s shrew
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Oryzomys couesi
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Mountain hare
- Plains pocket gopher
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Nephelomys albigularis
Animals with the same weight as a Masked white-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uromys hadrourus:
- Ricefield rat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- American pika bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Short-furred dasyure bringing 161 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Northern pika bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 165 grams to the scale