It is hard to guess what a Chiriqui brown mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chiriqui brown mouse (Scotinomys xerampelinus) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Chiriqui brown mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Scotinomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Chiriqui brown 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 Chiriqui brown mouse (Scotinomys xerampelinus), also known as the long-tailed singing mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in cloud forest and paramo at elevations of 2100 to 3400 m in Costa Rica and Panama.Male Chiriqui brown mice sing to attract mates and to warn off other males from their territories. Their songs also serve to repel members of the related, smaller, competing species, S. teguina.
Animals of the same family as a Chiriqui brown mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 31 grams
- Roraima mouse with a weight of 33 grams
- Insular vole with a weight of 66 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Irenomys with a weight of 43 grams
- Red-nosed mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Dalton’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chiriqui brown mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotinomys xerampelinus:
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Cape hairy bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Velvety free-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Ghost-faced bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- New Holland mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Trident bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Big free-tailed bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Chiriqui brown mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Chiriqui brown mouse: