It is hard to guess what a Chestnut climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut climbing mouse (Dendromus mystacalis) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Chestnut climbing mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Dendromus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 62.4 cm (2′ 1″). Usually, Chestnut climbing 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 chestnut climbing mouse (Dendromus mystacalis) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 119 grams
- Microryzomys minutus with a weight of 13 grams
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a weight of 622 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Monte gerbil mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Oecomys speciosus with a weight of 73 grams
- Djoongari with a weight of 39 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 48 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendromus mystacalis:
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Cave myotis bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Arctic shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Wongai ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Hodgson’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Eastern harvest mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Chestnut climbing mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Chestnut climbing mouse: