It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys microtis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys microtis (Oligoryzomys microtis) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys microtis is from the family Muridae (genus: Oligoryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 meter (6′ 7″).
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.
Oligoryzomys microtis, also known as the small-eared colilargo or small-eared pygmy rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found in western Brazil, eastern Peru, Bolivia, and northern Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys microtis
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Defua rat with a weight of 43 grams
- Taiwan field mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Midday jird with 5 babies per litter
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Hispid hocicudo with a weight of 36 grams
- Nyika climbing mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys microtis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys microtis:
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest blossom bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Monte gerbil mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale