It is hard to guess what a Desert pygmy mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert pygmy mouse (Mus indutus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Desert pygmy mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Desert pygmy mouses have 4 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 desert pygmy mouse (Mus indutus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Desert pygmy mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Broad-toothed mouse with a weight of 125 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Mongolian gerbil with a weight of 57 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse with a weight of 129 grams
- Bolaños woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- False water rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Painted big-eared mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Allen’s wood mouse with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert pygmy mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mus indutus:
- Pomona roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Bronze tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large-eared gray shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Ozimops loriae bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Allen’s spotted bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert pygmy mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Desert pygmy mouse: