It is hard to guess what a Andean gerbil mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Andean gerbil mouse (Eligmodontia puerulus) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Andean gerbil mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Eligmodontia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.92 meter (6′ 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 Andean gerbil mouse or Altiplano laucha (Eligmodontia puerulus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Andean gerbil mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Abyssinian grass rat with a weight of 73 grams
- Red-nosed mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Great Key Island giant rat with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a weight of 30 grams
- Osgood’s mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Guinea multimammate mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 96 grams
- Soft-furred rat with a weight of 67 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Andean gerbil mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eligmodontia puerulus:
- Scolomys melanops bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-eared bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Dusky caenolestid bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s gerbil bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale