It is hard to guess what a Chiriqui harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chiriqui harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys creper) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Chiriqui harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Chiriqui harvest 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.
The Chiriqui harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys creper) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
Animals of the same family as a Chiriqui harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Akodon boliviensis with a weight of 27 grams
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per litter
- Perote mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Lesser tree mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse with a weight of 170 grams
- Bolivian vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Oligoryzomys arenalis with a weight of 25 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chiriqui harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys creper:
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Angolan free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Silky mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Lesser yellow bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brown fruit-eating bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chiriqui harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chiriqui harvest mouse:
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sagebrush vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chiriqui harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Chiriqui harvest mouse: