It is hard to guess what a Asian garden dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Asian garden dormouse (Eliomys melanurus) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Asian garden dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Eliomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.7 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Asian garden dormouses have 5 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.
The Asian garden dormouse or large-eared garden dormouse, (Eliomys melanurus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae.It is found in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rocky areas and gardens.It is active throughout the year but can enter a state of torpor. Diet consists mainly of insects, snails, centipedes and geckos but as an omnivore, it will also eat plant matter. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Asian garden dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Edible dormouse with a weight of 128 grams
- Forest dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Spectacled dormouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Rock dormouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Desert dormouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Woolly dormouse with a weight of 25 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Asian garden dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliomys melanurus:
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Robert’s hocicudo bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Ochre bush squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed hopping mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Tristram’s jird bringing 112 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Santander dwarf squirrel bringing 99 grams to the scale
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Asian garden dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Asian garden dormouse:
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Biak glider with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Asian garden dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Asian garden dormouse: