It is hard to guess what a Southern multimammate mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern multimammate mouse (Mastomys coucha) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Southern multimammate mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mastomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.1 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Southern multimammate mouses have 7 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.
The southern multimammate mouse or southern African mastomys (Mastomys coucha) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae which is endemic to southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). It is called a multimammate mouse because it can have 8 to 12 pairs of mammae (milk producing glands), in comparison other mouse species only have 5 pairs.
Animals of the same family as a Southern multimammate mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Djoongari with a weight of 43 grams
- Black-footed tree-rat with a weight of 716 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Reed vole with 5 babies per litter
- Charming climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a weight of 38 grams
- Typical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern multimammate mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mastomys coucha:
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Andean rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Nikolaus’s mouse bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Puebla deer mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Gracile tateril bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern multimammate mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Southern multimammate mouse: