It is hard to guess what a Beaded wood mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Beaded wood mouse (Hylomyscus aeta) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Beaded wood mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Hylomyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Beaded wood 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 beaded hylomyscus or beaded wood mouse (Hylomyscus aeta) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Animals of the same family as a Beaded wood mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tanezumi rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per litter
- Small vesper mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Olive montane mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- European water vole with a weight of 120 grams
- Rothschild’s woolly rat bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Beaded wood mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylomyscus aeta:
- Peale’s free-tailed bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded tomb bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Creeping vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Wood sprite gracile opossum bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Parnell’s mustached bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Northern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Beaded wood mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Beaded wood mouse: