It is hard to guess what a Eurasian harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eurasian harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Eurasian harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Micromys). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Eurasian harvest mouses can have babies 2 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 harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) is a small rodent native to Europe and Asia. It is typically found in fields of cereal crops, such as wheat and oats, in reed beds and in other tall ground vegetation, such as long grass and hedgerows. It has reddish-brown fur with white underparts and a naked, highly prehensile tail, which it uses for climbing. It is the smallest European rodent; an adult may weigh as little as 4 grams (0.14 oz). It eats chiefly seeds and insects, but also nectar and fruit. Breeding nests are spherical constructions carefully woven from grass and attached to stems well above the ground.
Animals of the same family as a Eurasian harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a weight of 170 grams
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Maximowicz’s vole with 6 babies per litter
- African grass rat with a weight of 95 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a weight of 30 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 104 grams
- Kemp’s grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eurasian harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micromys minutus:
- Large forest bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Coelops frithi bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Sclater’s shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Argentine brown bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large-eared pied bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater bamboo bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican small-eared shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Malagasy serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eurasian harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eurasian harvest mouse:
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern pygmy mouse with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- African pygmy squirrel with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eurasian harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Eurasian harvest mouse:
- Long-eared chipmunk
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse
- Black-capped marmot
- Edible dormouse
- Belding’s ground squirrel
- Persian jird
- Little Indian field mouse
- Meadow vole
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Natal multimammate mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eurasian harvest mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eurasian harvest mouse:
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Sundevall’s jird with an average maximal age of 5.58 years