It is hard to guess what a Greater Wilfred’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater Wilfred’s mouse (Wilfredomys oenax) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Greater Wilfred’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Wilfredomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.5 cm (1′ 3″).
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 greater Wilfred’s mouse, Wilfredomys oenax, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil and Uruguay in subtropical lowland forest. It is arboreal to some degree. It is the only species in the genus Wilfredomys.
Animals of the same family as a Greater Wilfred’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Intelligent grass mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Woodland vole with a weight of 26 grams
- Santa Cruz mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Bank vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Bush rat with a weight of 124 grams
- Crested-tailed deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 96 grams
- Oecomys superans with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater Wilfred’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Wilfredomys oenax:
- South African pouched mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Pel’s pouched bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Antillean fruit-eating bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Pen-tailed treeshrew bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Lesser spear-nosed bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Minor epauletted fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale