It is hard to guess what a Drylands vesper mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Drylands vesper mouse (Calomys musculinus) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Drylands vesper mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Calomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.7 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Drylands vesper mouses have 7 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 drylands vesper mouse (Calomys musculinus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Argentina and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Drylands vesper mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a weight of 867 grams
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Romanian hamster with a weight of 97 grams
- Carpentarian rock rat with a weight of 123 grams
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Cheesman’s gerbil with a weight of 28 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
- Setzer’s pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Drylands vesper mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Calomys musculinus:
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Ningbing false antechinus bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Niobe’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Northern short-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Drylands vesper mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Drylands vesper mouse: