How big does a Eurasian harvest mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Eurasian harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) reaches an average size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 7 grams (0.02 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Eurasian harvest mouses have 5 babies about 2 times per year. The Eurasian harvest mouse (genus: Micromys) 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 harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) is a small rodent native to Europe and Asia. It is typically found in fields of cereal crops, such as wheat and oats, in reed beds and in other tall ground vegetation, such as long grass and hedgerows. It has reddish-brown fur with white underparts and a naked, highly prehensile tail, which it uses for climbing. It is the smallest European rodent; an adult may weigh as little as 4 grams (0.14 oz). It eats chiefly seeds and insects, but also nectar and fruit. Breeding nests are spherical constructions carefully woven from grass and attached to stems well above the ground.
Animals of the same family as a Eurasian harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser mole-rat with 3 babies per litter
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eurasian harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eurasian harvest mouse:
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eurasian harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Eurasian harvest mouse:
- Long-tailed pocket mouse
- Wood mouse
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
- Black-capped marmot
- Kowari
- Dalton’s mouse
- Variegated squirrel
- Zarudny’s rock shrew
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog
- Kultarr
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eurasian harvest mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eurasian harvest mouse:
- Rufous horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Plains rat with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Long-legged myotis with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eurasian harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micromys minutus:
- Northern broad-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- New Guinea long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Wollaston’s roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronomus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris sylvestris bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Thick-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale