It is hard to guess what a Barbary striped grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Barbary striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys barbarus) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Barbary striped grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Lemniscomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Barbary striped grass mouses have 4 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 Barbary striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys barbarus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha. This monotypic species is native to coastal Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in northwest Africa. In the past it was believed to also occur throughout a large part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but these populations are now treated as a separate species, the Heuglin’s striped grass mouse (L. zebra). These relatively small Lemniscomys are among the species most commonly kept in captivity.The Barbary, Heuglin’s and Hoogstral’s striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali) form a group that have a distinctly dark and light striped pelage. Other Lemniscomys either have more spotty/interrupted stripes or only a single dark stripe along the back.
Animals of the same family as a Barbary striped grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tumbala climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 210 grams
- African smoky mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Fossorial giant rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Handleyomys chapmani with a weight of 49 grams
- Plains rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Red tree vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 95 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Barbary striped grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lemniscomys barbarus:
- Common noctule bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Southern African spiny mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eyed bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Zacatecan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Barbary striped grass mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Barbary striped grass mouse: