It is hard to guess what a Akodon affinis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Akodon affinis (Akodon affinis) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Akodon affinis is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 58.3 cm (1′ 11″).
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.
Akodon affinis, also known as the Colombian grass mouse or Cordillera Occidental akodont, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Akodon affinis
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Euryoryzomys russatus with a weight of 60 grams
- Hoary bamboo rat bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Darien harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
- Harrington’s rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse with a weight of 111 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Southwestern water vole with a weight of 220 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Akodon affinis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon affinis:
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Cape spiny mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale