It is hard to guess what a Allen’s wood mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Allen’s wood mouse (Hylomyscus alleni) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Allen’s wood mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Hylomyscus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Allen’s wood mouses have 3 babies per litter.
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.
Allen’s hylomyscus or Allen’s wood mouse (Hylomyscus alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is native to West and Central Africa, where it is widely distributed. It occurs in deciduous forest habitat.
Animals of the same family as a Allen’s wood mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 32 grams
- Pygmy gerbil with a weight of 8 grams
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
- Turkish hamster with a weight of 198 grams
- Mayor’s mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Perote mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Colombian forest mouse with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s wood mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylomyscus alleni:
- Mediterranean pine vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Red fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian striped mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Blackish white-toothed shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Striped field mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Moon forest shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Allen’s wood mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Allen’s wood mouse: