How big does a Red rock rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Red rock rat (Aethomys chrysophilus) reaches an average size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 81 grams (0.18 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 4 grams (0.01 lbs). A Red rock rat has 3 babies at once. The Red rock rat (genus: Aethomys) 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 red rock rat, or red veld rat, (Aethomys chrysophilus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southern Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Red rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tamaulipan woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Pilliga mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
- Gracile tateril with 4 babies per litter
- Handleyomys chapmani with a weight of 49 grams
- Saunder’s vlei rat with a weight of 34 grams
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse with a weight of 75 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Tristram’s jird with 5 babies per litter
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Red rock rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red rock rat:
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Siberian chipmunk with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red rock rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Red rock rat:
- Western chestnut mouse
- Kaiser’s rock rat
- Large mole
- Plains pocket gopher
- Bower’s white-toothed rat
- Coast mole
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Southern bog lemming
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- North African hedgehog
Animals with the same weight as a Red rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aethomys chrysophilus:
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Water vole (North America) bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s chipmunk bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Mazama pocket gopher bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- California kangaroo rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Spectacled dormouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Betsileo short-tailed rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale