It is hard to guess what a Delany’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Delany’s mouse (Delanymys brooksi) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Delany’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Delanymys). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Delany’s 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.
Delany’s mouse or Delany’s swamp mouse (Delanymys brooksi) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is the only species in the genus Delanymys and the only extant member of subfamily Delanymyinae, which also contains the fossil genus Stenodontomys. It was previously placed in subfamily Petromyscinae, but it is apparently not closely related to Petromyscus. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Delany’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per litter
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Bunny rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fat sand rat with a weight of 102 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Greater tree mouse with a weight of 105 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Delany’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Delanymys brooksi:
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Clear-winged woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Dent’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Spix’s disk-winged bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Carmen Mountain shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Delany’s mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Delany’s mouse:
- Bahamian raccoon
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa
- Rajah spiny rat
- Northern grasshopper mouse
- Neacomys tenuipes
- East African highland shrew
- Western mouse
- Nephelomys albigularis
- Himalayan field rat
- Mountain hare
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Delany’s mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Delany’s mouse:
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.17 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years