It is hard to guess what a Akodon budini weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Akodon budini (Akodon budini) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Akodon budini 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 budini, also known as Budin’s akodont or Budin’s grass mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Andes of northwestern Argentina and adjacent Bolivia. The species is named after Emilio Budin, an Argentine specimen collector who worked with Oldfield Thomas.
Animals of the same family as a Akodon budini
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Olive montane mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a weight of 31 grams
- African pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Large Japanese field mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Mira climbing rat with a weight of 184 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Rwanda African mole-rat with 1 babies per litter
- White-throated woodrat with a weight of 208 grams
- Fraternal hill rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Akodon budini
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon budini:
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Red tree vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Zacatecan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- São Paulo grass mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys flavescens bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale