It is hard to guess what a Eastern chestnut mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern chestnut mouse (Pseudomys gracilicaudatus) on average weights 79 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Eastern chestnut mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Eastern chestnut mouses have 2 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 eastern chestnut mouse (Pseudomys gracilicaudatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia, along the eastern coast from northern Queensland and into New South Wales as far as Jervis Bay.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern chestnut mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-footed water rat with a weight of 83 grams
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Melanomys zunigae with a weight of 53 grams
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Masked white-tailed rat with a weight of 149 grams
- Cursor grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Bolam’s mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with a weight of 25 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern chestnut mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys gracilicaudatus:
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Darling Downs hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Gregarious short-tailed rat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern chestnut mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern chestnut mouse:
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern chestnut mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Eastern chestnut mouse: