How big does a Hazel dormouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) reaches an average size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 6 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 29 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Hazel dormouses have 4 babies about 1 times per year. The Hazel dormouse (genus: Muscardinus) 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 hazel dormouse or common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is a small mammal and the only living species in the genus Muscardinus.
Animals of the same family as a Hazel dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Woolly dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Rock dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Desert dormouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kellen’s dormouse with 4 babies per litter
- Kellen’s dormouse with 2 babies per litter
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Hazel dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hazel dormouse:
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Canyon mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malagasy serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hazel dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Hazel dormouse:
- Gerbil mouse
- Montane wood mouse
- White-footed mouse
- Dice’s cottontail
- Rudd’s mouse
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
- Japanese dormouse
- Tarbagan marmot
- Mountain cottontail
- New England cottontail
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hazel dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hazel dormouse:
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Garden dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hazel dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Muscardinus avellanarius:
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Pleasant bolo mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Akodon affinis bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Sminthopsis laniger bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Minute fruit bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Graphiurus hueti bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale