How big does a Southern Plains woodrat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Southern Plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus) reaches an average size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 2.25 years, they grow from 11 grams (0.02 lbs) to 255 grams (0.56 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Southern Plains woodrats have 2 babies about 2 times per year. The Southern Plains woodrat (genus: Neotoma) 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 Southern Plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northwest Mexico and in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Southern Plains woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Defua rat with 1 babies per litter
- Oxymycterus hucucha with a weight of 67 grams
- Silky Oldfield mouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Michoacan deer mouse with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Southern Plains woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern Plains woodrat:
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black rat with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lyle’s flying fox with a size of 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guyenne spiny rat with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern Plains woodrat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern Plains woodrat:
- Mexican harvest mouse
- False water rat
- Pampas cat
- Western barbastelle
- American black bear
- Maritime striped squirrel
- Fennec fox
- African striped weasel
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- Savi’s pipistrelle
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern Plains woodrat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern Plains woodrat:
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Slender-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Honey possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern Plains woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma micropus:
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Montane monkey-faced bat bringing 290 grams to the scale
- White-tailed olalla rat bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Armored rat bringing 281 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied weasel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale