It is hard to guess what a Fawn hopping mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fawn hopping mouse (Notomys cervinus) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Fawn hopping mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Notomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Fawn hopping mouses have 2 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 fawn hopping mouse (Notomys cervinus) is a rodent native to the central Australian desert. Like all hopping mice it has strong front teeth, a long tail, dark eyes, big ears, well-developed haunches and very long, narrow hind feet. It weighs between 30 and 50 g (1.1 and 1.8 oz). (Compare with the common house mouse, at 10 to 25 g (0.35 to 0.88 oz).)The coloration of the fawn hopping mouse varies from pale pinkish-fawn to grey on the upper parts, and white underneath. The tail is 120 to 160 mm (4.7 to 6.3 in) long, bicoloured (white underneath, darker below), and ends in a dark brush. The ears and round, dark eyes are particularly large, and the whiskers even more so: 65 mm (2.6 in) in a creature that is only 95 to 120 mm (3.7 to 4.7 in) long.The favoured habitat is the sparsely vegetated arid gibber plains and claypans of the Lake Eyre Basin, including parts of northern South Australia, far south-western Queensland and possibly the Northern Territory, though this last is uncertain. Records from the late 19th century show that its former range was more extensive including western New South Wales.Breeding is thought to be opportunistic. In captivity, gestation is about 40 days and between one and five fully furred young are born.Fawn hopping mice live in small family groups of two to four individuals. During the day, they shelter in burrows which are simpler and shallower than those of the sand-dwelling dusky hopping mouse but nevertheless up to a metre deep with between one and three entrances. At night, they forage outwards for hundreds of metres, searching for seeds, and also taking green shoots and insects if the opportunity presents itself. As with other hopping mice, they do not need to drink, though they can metabolise highly saline water if it is available.The fawn hopping mouse is classified as vulnerable. The causes of its decline are unknown, but assumed to be habitat degradation, competition for food with introduced species, and predation by introduced cats and foxes.
Animals of the same family as a Fawn hopping mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 96 grams
- Caucasian snow vole with 5 babies per litter
- Romanian hamster with a weight of 97 grams
- Insular vole with a weight of 66 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Least forest mouse with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fawn hopping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Notomys cervinus:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Andean gerbil mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Rümmler’s brush mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Dusky caenolestid bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Field vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fawn hopping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fawn hopping mouse:
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western jumping mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Fawn hopping mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Fawn hopping mouse: