How big does a Asian garden dormouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Asian garden dormouse (Eliomys melanurus) reaches an average size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 100 grams (0.22 lbs). A Asian garden dormouse has 5 babies at once. The Asian garden dormouse (genus: Eliomys) is a member of the family Myoxidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Asian garden dormouse or large-eared garden dormouse, (Eliomys melanurus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae.It is found in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rocky areas and gardens.It is active throughout the year but can enter a state of torpor. Diet consists mainly of insects, snails, centipedes and geckos but as an omnivore, it will also eat plant matter. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Asian garden dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Kellen’s dormouse with 4 babies per litter
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woolly dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same size as a Asian garden dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Asian garden dormouse:
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shining thicket rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Asian garden dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Asian garden dormouse:
- Pale field rat
- Soft-furred rat
- Tundra vole
- Dusky field rat
- Uinta ground squirrel
- Long-tailed shrew
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Daurian pika
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Star-nosed mole
Animals with the same weight as a Asian garden dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliomys melanurus:
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Diminutive woodrat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Jaliscan cotton rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Northern three-toed jerboa bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Long-footed water rat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori otter shrew bringing 112 grams to the scale