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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: ISRN Biomath. 2012 Jul 12;2012(2012):170594. doi: 10.5402/2012/170594

Table 1.

Maximum measured urine osmolalities in selected animals. For comparison, blood plasma osmolality is about 300 mosm/kg H2O [26].

Animal Urine osmolality
mosm/kg H2O
Domestic pig 1,075
Human 1,430
Rat 2,849
Mouse 2,950
Chinchilla 7,599
Australian hopping mouse 9,374