It is hard to guess what a Buffoon striped grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Buffoon striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys macculus) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Buffoon striped grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Lemniscomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Buffoon lemniscomys or Buffoon striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys macculus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, and possibly Rwanda.Its natural habitats are moist savannah and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Buffoon striped grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Turkish hamster with a weight of 198 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Tres Marías Island mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 78 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus with a weight of 60 grams
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Chestnut white-bellied rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- De Vis’s woolly rat bringing 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) to the scale
- Nyika rock rat with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Buffoon striped grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lemniscomys macculus:
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed house bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui harvest mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys destructor bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale