How big does a Golden mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) reaches an average size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 2.5 years, they grow from 2 grams (0 lbs) to 22 grams (0.05 lbs). A Golden mouse has 2 babies at once. The Golden mouse (genus: Ochrotomys) 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 golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) is a species of New World mouse. It is usually 5–8 inches (12–25 cm) in body length, and has a soft pelage that ranges from golden-brownish to burnt orange in color. The genus name comes from the Greek words, “ochre”, a yellow or brown earth pigment, and “mys,” meaning mouse.
Animals of the same family as a Golden mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Unexpected cotton rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Maximowicz’s vole with 6 babies per litter
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Zempoaltépec vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Brown deer mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Red hocicudo with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Golden mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden mouse:
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Usambara shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eurasian water shrew with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Golden mouse:
- Greater stick-nest rat
- Crested servaline genet
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Crested porcupine
- Southern pygmy mouse
- Red hocicudo
- Crab-eating raccoon
- Greater long-tailed hamster
- Tatra pine vole
- Temminck’s striped mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Golden mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Golden mouse:
- Honey possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- New Guinean quoll with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- African wading rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Golden mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochrotomys nuttalli:
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Drylands vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Serotine bat bringing 23 grams to the scale