It is hard to guess what a Forrest’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Forrest’s mouse (Leggadina forresti) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Forrest’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Leggadina). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Forrest’s mouse (Leggadina forresti), or desert short-tailed mouse, is a small species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is a widespread but sparsely distributed species found across arid and semi-arid inland Australia, commonly found in tussock grassland, chenopod shrubland, and mulga or savannah woodlands.
Animals of the same family as a Forrest’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Japen rat with a weight of 380 grams
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a weight of 186 grams
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Krebs’s fat mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Slender harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Mearns’s pouched mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same weight as a Forrest’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leggadina forresti:
- Red fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- White-footed vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Western false pipistrelle bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded tomb bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s chaco mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- White-footed dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Forrest’s mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Forrest’s mouse:
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)