How big does a Garden dormouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) reaches an average size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5.5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 115 grams (0.25 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Garden dormouses have 5 babies about 1 times per year. The 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 garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) is a rodent in the dormouse family.
Animals of the same family as a Garden dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Woolly dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectacled dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Kellen’s dormouse with 4 babies per litter
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Hazel dormouse with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Garden dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Garden dormouse:
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plains rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Garden dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Garden dormouse:
- Ural field mouse
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
- Rock dormouse
- Dalton’s mouse
- Long-clawed shrew
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Belding’s ground squirrel
- Edible dormouse
- European rabbit
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Garden dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Garden dormouse:
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Least chipmunk with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 6.33 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Garden dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliomys quercinus:
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Siberian chipmunk bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Big-eared swamp rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Slender treeshrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Roman mole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale