It is hard to guess what a Edible dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Edible dormouse (Glis glis) on average weights 128 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Edible dormouse is from the family Gliridae (genus: Glis). 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 Gliridae family:
- Chinese dormouse with a weight of 31 grams
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse 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 Glis glis:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 118 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antelope squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Littledale’s whistling rat bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Siberian flying squirrel bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian rock rat bringing 123 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:
- Southern mountain cavy with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stephen’s woodrat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ruddy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fly River water rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Spotted ground squirrel with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
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:
- Norway lemming
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Tristram’s jird
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Marbled polecat
- Dusky slender opossum
- Kowari
- Mongolian gerbil
- Sagebrush vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Edible dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Edible dormouse:
- Banded linsang with an average maximal age of 10.67 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Western tree hyrax with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Little pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Plantain squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.58 years