It is hard to guess what a Ash-colored Oldfield mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ash-colored Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys cinereus) on average weights 77 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Ash-colored Oldfield mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Thomasomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 ash-colored Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys cinereus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Ash-colored Oldfield mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Pleasant gerbil with a weight of 13 grams
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
- Djoongari with a weight of 43 grams
- Bramble Cay melomys with a weight of 100 grams
- Savile’s bandicoot rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Northern mole vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Palawan spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Ash-colored Oldfield mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomasomys cinereus:
- Andean swamp rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Marmoset rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Oecomys superans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s rousette bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Maritime striped squirrel bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Harrington’s rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ash-colored Oldfield mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ash-colored Oldfield mouse:
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Horsfield’s shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)