It is hard to guess what a Luzon montane forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Luzon montane forest mouse (Apomys datae) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Luzon montane forest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 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 Luzon montane forest mouse (Apomys datae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, from the genus Apomys.It occurs only in the Philippines, where it has been found on the large northern island Luzon (in the Cordillera Central and on the coast of Ilocos Norte). It is most closely related to the large Mindoro forest mouse, which occurs on Mindoro. There may be another related species in the Sierra Madre, but this species is yet undescribed. The Luzon montane forest mouse is a relatively large, ground-dwelling rat with a tail that is quite short for its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Luzon montane forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per litter
- Ruschi’s rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- White-tailed antsangy with a weight of 205 grams
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Montane fish-eating rat with a weight of 39 grams
- Toad mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Arnhem Land rock rat with a weight of 94 grams
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Luzon montane forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys datae:
- El Dorado grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Jico deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Royle’s mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s water mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Luzon montane forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Luzon montane forest mouse:
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)