It is hard to guess what a Cursor grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cursor grass mouse (Akodon cursor) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Cursor grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.7 cm (0′ 2″).
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 cursor grass mouse or cursorial akodont (Akodon cursor), is a sigmodontine rodent from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Cursor grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Greater mole-rat with a weight of 470 grams
- Southern multimammate mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Greater big-footed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Golden spiny mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Bagobo rat with a weight of 395 grams
- Angoni vlei rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Andean vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Cursor grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon cursor:
- Delectable soft-furred mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Ecuadorian grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Sepia short-tailed opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cursor grass mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cursor grass mouse:
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat with a size of 3 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Common pipistrelle with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Grey long-eared bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)