It is hard to guess what a Abrothrix sanborni weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Abrothrix sanborni (Akodon sanborni) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Abrothrix sanborni is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.7 cm (0′ 4″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Abrothrix sanborni, also known as Sanborn’s grass mouse or Sanborn’s akodont, is a species of rodent in the genus Abrothrix of family Cricetidae. It is found in southern Argentina and Chile, but may not be distinct from A. longipilis.
Animals of the same family as a Abrothrix sanborni
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 62 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 210 grams
- Water vole (North America) with a weight of 92 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 102 grams
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Andean vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Mozambique thicket rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 85 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Abrothrix sanborni
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon sanborni:
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Carriker’s round-eared bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mountain mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Beaded wood mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Taiwan field mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale