It is hard to guess what a Dolorous grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dolorous grass mouse (Akodon dolores) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Dolorous grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Dolorous grass 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 dolorous grass mouse or Córdoba akodont (Akodon dolores) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Dolorous grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 117 grams
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cairo spiny mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Philippine forest rat with a weight of 253 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dolorous grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon dolores:
- Grant’s rock mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Cape short-eared gerbil bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Dryad shrew tenrec bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Lesser musky fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied caenolestid bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Emin’s gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Four-striped grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Dolorous grass mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Dolorous grass mouse: