It is hard to guess what a Broad-footed climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-footed climbing mouse (Rhipidomys latimanus) on average weights 57 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Broad-footed climbing mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Rhipidomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21 cm (0′ 9″).
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 broad-footed climbing mouse (Rhipidomys latimanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-footed climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Southern African spiny mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Oecomys bicolor with a weight of 37 grams
- Delany’s mouse with a weight of 4 grams
- Ural field mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- JunÃn grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-footed climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhipidomys latimanus:
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Dusky slender opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Mexican mouse opossum bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Webb’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Oxymycterus hucucha bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat bringing 48 grams to the scale