How big does a Eastern harvest mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis) reaches an average size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 2.17 years, they grow from 1 grams (0 lbs) to 8 grams (0.02 lbs). A Eastern harvest mouse has 2 babies at once. The Eastern harvest mouse (genus: Reithrodontomys) is a member of the family Muridae.
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 eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in the United States.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and pastureland.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern collared lemming with 4 babies per litter
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bramble Cay melomys with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Eastern harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern harvest mouse:
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Eastern harvest mouse:
- Western barbastelle
- Val’s gundi
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Binturong
- Aardwolf
- Red tree vole
- Rock hyrax
- Cactus mouse
- Bushpig
- Golden spiny mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern harvest mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern harvest mouse:
- Tundra vole with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Marsh rice rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys humulis:
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Fringed myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Thick-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale