It is hard to guess what a Mount Apo forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mount Apo forest mouse (Apomys hylocoetes) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Mount Apo 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 Mount Apo forest mouse (Apomys hylocetes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mount Apo forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Libyan jird with a weight of 91 grams
- White-eared cotton rat with a weight of 132 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- White-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Roraima mouse with a weight of 33 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 121 grams
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Western red-backed vole with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mount Apo forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys hylocoetes:
- Chinese dormouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Grant’s rock mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Four-toed rice tenrec bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mount Apo forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mount Apo forest mouse:
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern bog lemming with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican vole with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain pygmy possum with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)