🐭Muskrat
The muskrat or common muskrat is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 1 kg
- Body length
- 0.3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 9.99 years
Everything we know about the Muskrat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.36 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.3 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass5.22 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan9.99 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length3.61 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity198 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation28 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 26 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter sizeabout 6COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 6.7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Muskrat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyCricetidae
- ›genusOndatra
- ›speciesOndatra zibethicus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- subfamilyArvicolinae
- genusOndatra
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyCricetidae
- subfamilyArvicolinae
- genusOndatra
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