It is hard to guess what a Coues’s climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Coues’s climbing mouse (Rhipidomys couesi) on average weights 89 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Coues’s climbing mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Rhipidomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
Coues’s climbing mouse (Rhipidomys couesi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. It is named in honour of the American zoologist Elliott Coues who studied birds and small mammals.
Animals of the same family as a Coues’s climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
- Brown rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Candango mouse with a weight of 97 grams
- Djoongari with a weight of 39 grams
- Naked-eared deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Koford’s grass mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Day’s grass mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Coues’s climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhipidomys couesi:
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Long-footed water rat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Hero shrew bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Dibbler bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Tsing-ling pika bringing 105 grams to the scale