It is hard to guess what a Alston’s brown mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Alston’s brown mouse (Scotinomys teguina) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Alston’s brown mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Scotinomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Alston’s brown mouses have 2 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.
Alston’s brown mouse, also called Alston’s singing mouse, short-tailed singing mouse, or singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina), is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Central America, from Chiapas, Mexico, to western Panama.This species produces vocalizations in both the sonic and ultrasonic range that are thought to be an important component of its communication behavior.
Animals of the same family as a Alston’s brown mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Isarog striped shrew-rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Yellow steppe lemming with a weight of 26 grams
- Zempoaltepec with a weight of 58 grams
- Transcaspian vole with 2 babies per litter
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Olive montane mouse with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Alston’s brown mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotinomys teguina:
- Mexican shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Surat serotine bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Wongai ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Dwarf bonneted bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little broad-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bogotá grass mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Yellow serotine bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Alston’s brown mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Alston’s brown mouse: