It is hard to guess what a Garden dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) on average weights 115 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Garden dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Eliomys). They can live for up to 5.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.8 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Garden dormouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) is a rodent in the dormouse family.
Animals of the same family as a Garden dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Forest dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Woodland dormouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Hazel dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Asian garden dormouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Edible dormouse with a weight of 128 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Chinese dormouse with a weight of 31 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Garden dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eliomys quercinus:
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s tarsier bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Crest-tailed mulgara bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Magdalena rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Santander dwarf squirrel bringing 99 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Persian jird bringing 108 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Garden dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Garden dormouse:
- Panamint chipmunk with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Garden dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Garden dormouse:
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
- Northern red-backed vole
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- American water shrew
- Townsend’s vole
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
- Crowned shrew
- Sagebrush vole
- Yellow-pine chipmunk
- Meadow jumping mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Garden dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Garden dormouse:
- Brush-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Greater grison with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Canyon bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Eastern mole with an average maximal age of 6.17 years