It is hard to guess what a Chestnut tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut tree mouse (Pogonomys macrourus) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Chestnut tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pogonomys). They can live for up to 2.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Chestnut 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 chestnut tree mouse (Pogonomys macrourus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Melanomys caliginosus with a weight of 41 grams
- Nectomys rattus with a weight of 249 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Common rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 89 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Large Japanese field mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Kemp’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pogonomys macrourus:
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Naked-rumped pouched bat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Jalapan pine vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chestnut tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chestnut tree mouse:
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chestnut tree mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Chestnut tree mouse:
- Selous’s mongoose
- Jaguarundi
- Congo rope squirrel
- American badger
- Crested agouti
- Tres Marías Island mouse
- Silvery mole-rat
- Chacoan peccary
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Seminole bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Chestnut tree mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Chestnut tree mouse:
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Honey possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Vagrant shrew with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Australian swamp rat with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years