It is hard to guess what a Hairy harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys hirsutus) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Hairy harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Hairy harvest 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 hairy harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys hirsutus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus with a weight of 25 grams
- Woodland thicket rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Desert pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Yellow-haired hill rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Plains rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Mexican volcano mouse with a weight of 44 grams
- Tundra vole with a weight of 33 grams
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Puna mouse with a weight of 84 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys hirsutus:
- Least pygmy squirrel bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eyed bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Yellow-winged bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Savanna path shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Hairy harvest mouse: