It is hard to guess what a Brants’s climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brants’s climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Brants’s climbing mouse is from the family Nesomyidae (genus: Dendromus). They can live for up to 3.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.4 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Brants’s climbing 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.
Brants’s climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Brants’s climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Nesomyidae family:
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Hairy-tailed antsangy with a weight of 219 grams
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 75 grams
- Lovat’s climbing mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Gray climbing mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a weight of 93 grams
- White-bellied nesomys with a weight of 214 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Western nesomys with a weight of 155 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brants’s climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendromus mesomelas:
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Tacarcuna bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Chestnut long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Eastern long-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Dwarf bonneted bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Alston’s brown mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Northern broad-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bates’s slit-faced bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Brants’s climbing mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Brants’s climbing mouse:
- Borneo black-banded squirrel
- Brush mouse
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Capybara
- Hooper’s mouse
- Deroo’s mouse
- Large-eared tenrec
- Brown palm civet
- Common punaré
- Small Indian civet
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brants’s climbing mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brants’s climbing mouse:
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years