It is hard to guess what a Edible dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Edible dormouse (Myoxus glis) on average weights 128 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Edible dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Myoxus). They can live for up to 9 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Edible dormouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 edible dormouse or fat dormouse (Glis glis) is a large dormouse and the only living species in the genus Glis, found in most of western Europe. Its name comes from the Romans, who ate them as a delicacy.
Animals of the same family as a Edible dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Forest dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Rock dormouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Hazel dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Woolly dormouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Spectacled dormouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Graphiurus hueti with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Edible dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myoxus glis:
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Tete veld aethomys bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Hispid cotton rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Edible dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Edible dormouse:
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Robust yellow bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Douglas squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Edible dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Edible dormouse:
- Midday jird
- Coyote
- Townsend’s vole
- Common degu
- Gansu shrew
- Olive grass mouse
- Eastern spotted skunk
- Kowari
- Northern grass mouse
- Montane vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Edible dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Edible dormouse:
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.33 years
- Dice’s cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Cape fox with an average maximal age of 10 years