How big does a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (Batomys salomonseni) reaches an average size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 186 grams (0.41 lbs). The Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (genus: Batomys) 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 Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (Batomys salomonseni) is one of five species of rodent in the genus Batomys. It is in the diverse family Muridae. This species is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater long-tailed hamster with 2 babies per litter
- Puna mouse with 1 babies per litter
- Flat-haired mouse with 6 babies per litter
- Isabel naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Kemp’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Shining thicket rat with 1 babies per litter
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mindanao hairy-tailed rat:
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mountain spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Mindanao hairy-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Batomys salomonseni:
- Val’s gundi bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Ochre mole-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat bringing 178 grams to the scale
- Bridges’s degu bringing 162 grams to the scale
- Felou gundi bringing 205 grams to the scale