It is hard to guess what a Striped field mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Striped field mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apodemus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.7 cm (1′ 1″). On average, Striped field mouses can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 5.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) is a rodent in the family Muridae. The range of this species stretches from Eastern Europe to Eastern Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Striped field mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 29 grams
- Western red-backed vole with a weight of 18 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Thomas’s pine vole with 4 babies per litter
- Bunny rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
- Soft-furred rat with a weight of 67 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Striped field mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apodemus agrarius:
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Least forest mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Striped field mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Striped field mouse:
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster
- Four-striped grass mouse
- Caucasian snow vole
- Pacific jumping mouse
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Smoky shrew
- Buxton’s jird
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Southern red-backed vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Striped field mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Striped field mouse:
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Giant golden mole with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Forest dormouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with an average maximal age of 3.5 years