How big does a Woodland thicket rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) reaches an average size of 11 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 4.33 years, they grow from 4 grams (0.01 lbs) to 42 grams (0.09 lbs). A Woodland thicket rat has 3 babies at once. The Woodland thicket rat (genus: Grammomys) 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 woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, and urban areas.
Animals of the same family as a Woodland thicket rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Short-haired water rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ruwenzori thicket rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Holochilus brasiliensis with 3 babies per litter
- Sulawesi giant rat with a weight of 325 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woodland thicket rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodland thicket rat:
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Swift fruit bat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woodland thicket rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Woodland thicket rat:
- Tasmanian pygmy possum
- Ochre mole-rat
- Eastern mole
- Western chestnut mouse
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
- Rakali
- Cape York rat
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Hoary fox
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland thicket rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland thicket rat:
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland thicket rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Grammomys dolichurus:
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Black-bellied fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- White-throated grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Mexican water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed phascogale bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian gerbil bringing 42 grams to the scale