It is hard to guess what a Rudd’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rudd’s mouse (Uranomys ruddi) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Rudd’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Uranomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Rudd’s mouses have 4 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.
Rudd’s mouse or the white-bellied brush-furred rat (Uranomys ruddi) is the only member of the genus Uranomys. This animal is closely related to the spiny mice, brush-furred mice, and the link rat.
Animals of the same family as a Rudd’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with a weight of 90 grams
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Algerian mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Cairo spiny mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Marsh rice rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 48 grams
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse with a weight of 46 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rudd’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uranomys ruddi:
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- White-throated grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Ecuadorian grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Bastard big-footed mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Naked-eared deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Molossops abrasus bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked dunnart bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Akodon sylvanus bringing 39 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rudd’s mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rudd’s mouse:
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spiny pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rudd’s mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Rudd’s mouse: