It is hard to guess what a Peters’s striped mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s striped mouse (Hybomys univittatus) on average weights 54 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Peters’s striped mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Hybomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Peters’s striped mouses have 2 babies per litter.
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.
Peters’s striped mouse or Peters’s hybomys (Hybomys univittatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s striped mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sonoran woodrat with a weight of 227 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse with a weight of 75 grams
- Western mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Rothschild’s woolly rat bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern heather vole with a weight of 27 grams
- Gambian pouched rat bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Handleyomys melanotis with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s striped mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hybomys univittatus:
- Transandinomys talamancae bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Emin’s gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys chapmani bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Sambirano mouse lemur bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Webb’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Peters’s striped mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Peters’s striped mouse: