It is hard to guess what a Cameroon soft-furred mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cameroon soft-furred mouse (Praomys morio) on average weights 41 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Cameroon soft-furred mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Praomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Cameroon soft-furred mouses have 3 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 Cameroon soft-furred mouse or Cameroon praomys (Praomys morio) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
- Thespian grass mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Black-tailed tree rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Pseudoryzomys with a weight of 45 grams
- Blackish deer mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Praomys morio:
- Fat-tailed false antechinus bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Montane fish-eating rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Star-nosed mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Saunder’s vlei rat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Miller’s striped mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- North African elephant shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Melanomys caliginosus bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cameroon soft-furred mouse:
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large tree mouse with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prairie vole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hottentot golden mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Singing vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse: