It is hard to guess what a Delicate vesper mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Delicate vesper mouse (Calomys tener) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Delicate vesper mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Calomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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 delicate vesper mouse (Calomys tener) is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Its karyotype has 2n = 66 and FN = 66.
Animals of the same family as a Delicate vesper mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 117 grams
- Silky mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per litter
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 34 grams
- Geoxus valdivianus with a weight of 31 grams
- White-footed vole with a weight of 23 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per litter
- Lesser bandicoot rat with a weight of 227 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Delicate vesper mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Calomys tener:
- Merida small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Andean small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Delicate slender opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- True’s shrew mole bringing 15 grams to the scale
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-headed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Neacomys guianae bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Delicate vesper mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Delicate vesper mouse:
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)