It is hard to guess what a Edith’s leaf-eared mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Edith’s leaf-eared mouse (Graomys edithae) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Edith’s leaf-eared mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Graomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 cm (0′ 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.
Edith’s leaf-eared mouse (Graomys edithae) is a species of rodentin the family Cricetidae. It is known only from Argentina, where it was found in a montane grassland on Otro Cerro at an elevation of 3000 m.
Animals of the same family as a Edith’s leaf-eared mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Central pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis with a weight of 23 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a weight of 92 grams
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Edith’s leaf-eared mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Graomys edithae:
- Dusky fruit bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Molossops abrasus bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Northern mole vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Dark bolo mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Flat-faced fruit-eating bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Large-eared free-tailed bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale