It is hard to guess what a Chaco grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chaco grass mouse (Akodon toba) on average weights 51 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Chaco grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Chaco grass mouse (Akodon toba) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Chaco grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 32 grams
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pale field rat with a weight of 169 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Blick’s grass rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Hispid hocicudo with a weight of 36 grams
- Microryzomys minutus with a weight of 13 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Chaco grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon toba:
- Red-tailed chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Melanomys zunigae bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
- South African pouched mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed gerbil bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Greater noctule bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Senegal gerbil bringing 60 grams to the scale