It is hard to guess what a Plains harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Plains harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys montanus) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Plains harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Plains 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 plains harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys montanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in northern Mexico and the central United States.
Animals of the same family as a Plains harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a weight of 57 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cursor grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a weight of 111 grams
- Nayarit mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Plains harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys montanus:
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Mount Kenya mole shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Brown long-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Siberian large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Southern yellow bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Eastern harvest mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Damara woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Western harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Plains harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Plains harvest mouse: