How big does a Heath mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) reaches an average size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 72 grams (0.16 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Heath mouses have 3 babies about 1 times per year. The Heath mouse (genus: Pseudomys) 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 heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) is a species of mouse in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice.
Animals of the same family as a Heath mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Watson’s climbing rat with 2 babies per litter
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mediterranean pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per litter
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 2 babies per litter
- Edward’s swamp rat with 2 babies per litter
- Holochilus brasiliensis with 3 babies per litter
- Pouched gerbil with 2 babies per litter
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Heath mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Heath mouse:
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stephen’s woodrat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Heath mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Heath mouse:
- Northern three-toed jerboa
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Geoxus valdivianus
- Mazama pocket gopher
- Lesser red musk shrew
- Creeping vole
- Canyon mouse
- Smooth-coated otter
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Zacatecan deer mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Heath mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys shortridgei:
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Charming thicket rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Forest Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Gray leaf-eared mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale