It is hard to guess what a Fat mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fat mouse (Steatomys pratensis) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Fat mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Steatomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.8 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Fat mouses have 3 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.
The fat mouse (Steatomys pratensis) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Fat mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 612 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 29 grams
- Common vole with a weight of 26 grams
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Savi’s pine vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Striped field mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Mountain spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- San Lorenzo mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Montane fish-eating rat with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fat mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Steatomys pratensis:
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Saunder’s vlei rat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Cuban fruit-eating bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fat mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fat mouse:
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater bulldog bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cinereus shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Fat mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Fat mouse: