It is hard to guess what a Eastern harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Eastern harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 2.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Eastern harvest 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 harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in the United States.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and pastureland.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 119 grams
- European hamster with a weight of 429 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Smoky mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crested-tailed deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Australian swamp rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni with a weight of 24 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 17 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys humulis:
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Zacatecas shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mato Grosso dog-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Myotis bocagei bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Toad mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Wongai ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern harvest mouse:
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Eastern harvest mouse:
- Mechow’s mole-rat
- Spotted hyena
- Greenish yellow bat
- Brants’s whistling rat
- Greater dwarf lemur
- African civet
- Eurasian otter
- Jaguarundi
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Eastern gray squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern harvest mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern harvest mouse:
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Marsh rice rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years