It is hard to guess what a Western chestnut mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western chestnut mouse (Pseudomys nanus) on average weights 70 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Western chestnut mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.1 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Western chestnut mouses have 3 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 western chestnut mouse (Pseudomys nanus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is native to northern Australia and various close islands, with the vast majority found in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Animals of the same family as a Western chestnut mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a weight of 111 grams
- Unexpected cotton rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Red spiny rat with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Western chestnut mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys nanus:
- Marmoset rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Northern red-sided opossum bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys albigularis bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Mountain pocket gopher bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltepec bringing 58 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Western chestnut mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western chestnut mouse:
- Panama slender opossum with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed potoroo with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-eared flying mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-tailed vole with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western chestnut mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Western chestnut mouse: