It is hard to guess what a Altiplano grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Altiplano grass mouse (Akodon puer) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Altiplano grass mouse 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.
The Altiplano grass mouse (Akodon lutescens) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Bolivia, and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Altiplano grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a weight of 194 grams
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per litter
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Ecuadorian grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Norway lemming with a weight of 67 grams
- European snow vole with a weight of 48 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Western pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Altiplano grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon puer:
- Southern grasshopper mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Spiny pocket mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Steppe field mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern ghost bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Altiplano grass mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Altiplano grass mouse:
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Parantechinus bilarni with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern three-striped opossum with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)