It is hard to guess what a Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis bonariensis) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse is from the family Cricetidae (genus: Phyllotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37 cm (1′ 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 Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis bonariensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse
We found other animals of the Cricetidae family:
- Dark bolo mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi with a weight of 43 grams
- Northern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Sikkim mountain vole with 2 babies per litter
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a weight of 57 grams
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 24 grams
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse with a weight of 70 grams
- Handleyomys intectus with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phyllotis bonariensis:
- Irenomys bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Chinanteco deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Desert mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Bushveld elephant shrew bringing 48 grams to the scale