It is hard to guess what a Eligmodontia typus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eligmodontia typus (Eligmodontia typus) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Eligmodontia typus is from the family Muridae (genus: Eligmodontia). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 0.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.92 meter (6′ 4″). Usually, Eligmodontia typuss have 6 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.
Eligmodontia typus is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina and possibly also Chile. The northernmost population might represent a distinct species, E. bolsonensis, to which the common name highland gerbil mouse would apply. The lowland population would then be known as eastern Patagonian gerbil mouse or eastern Patagonian laucha.
Animals of the same family as a Eligmodontia typus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dent’s vlei rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Rothschild’s woolly rat bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Cape spiny mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Southern grasshopper mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Chaco grass mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Luzon striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eligmodontia typus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eligmodontia typus:
- Bates’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Large-eared slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Ozimops beccarii bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Malagasy slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Moon forest shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Spotted bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Eligmodontia typus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Eligmodontia typus:
- Philippine warty pig
- Arctic shrew
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- Long-tailed weasel
- Northern quoll
- Greater bandicoot rat
- New Guinean quoll
- Flat-haired mouse
- Mohave ground squirrel
- Chinese striped hamster
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eligmodontia typus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eligmodontia typus:
- Water vole (North America) with an average maximal age of 0.75 years
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 0.75 years