It is hard to guess what a California red tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult California red tree mouse (Arborimus pomo) on average weights 32 grams (0.07 lbs).
The California red tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Arborimus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, California red tree mouses have 2 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 California red tree mouse or Sonoma tree vole (Arborimus pomo) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The species is found in northwest California.The preferred habitat for this primarily arboreal vole is old-growth Douglas-fir forests.
Animals of the same family as a California red tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Golden hamster with a weight of 98 grams
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiapan climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a weight of 622 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Arctic lemming with a weight of 78 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 57 grams
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Stein’s rat with a weight of 151 grams
Animals with the same weight as a California red tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arborimus pomo:
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s bonneted bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a California red tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as California red tree mouse:
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-tailed vole with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panama slender opossum with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a California red tree mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a California red tree mouse: