It is hard to guess what a Fulvous harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fulvous harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Fulvous harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Fulvous harvest 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 fulvous harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Fulvous harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a weight of 92 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Silky Oldfield mouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Day’s grass mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fulvous harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys fulvescens:
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Miller’s long-tongued bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Velvety free-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Glen’s wattled bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Merida small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus hilli bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern birch mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fulvous harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fulvous harvest mouse:
- Emilia’s gracile opossum with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Fulvous harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Fulvous harvest mouse: