It is hard to guess what a Forest Oldfield mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Forest Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys silvestris) on average weights 77 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Forest Oldfield mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Thomasomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.6 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.
The forest Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys silvestris) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Ecuador.
Animals of the same family as a Forest Oldfield mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Stirton’s deer mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Akodon sylvanus with a weight of 39 grams
- Desert woodrat with a weight of 144 grams
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 2 babies per litter
- Chelemys macronyx with a weight of 72 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine woolly rat bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Forest Oldfield mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomasomys silvestris:
- Western rock elephant shrew bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Oldfield white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Southern mole vole bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Master leaf-eared mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Greater spear-nosed bat bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Crab-eating rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Forest Oldfield mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Forest Oldfield mouse:
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hottentot golden mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)