It is hard to guess what a Champion’s tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Champion’s tree mouse (Pogonomys championi) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Champion’s tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pogonomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Champion’s 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.
Champion’s tree mouse (Pogonomys championi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Champion’s tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Masked white-tailed rat with a weight of 149 grams
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Mimic tree rat with a weight of 975 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Günther’s vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Buffoon striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Maxomys baeodon with a weight of 159 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Champion’s tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pogonomys championi:
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys auriventer bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Cerradomys subflavus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Chihuahuan mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Champion’s tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Champion’s tree mouse:
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red rock rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Voalavoanala with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Champion’s tree mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Champion’s tree mouse: