It is hard to guess what a Garlepp’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Garlepp’s mouse (Galenomys garleppi) on average weights 59 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Garlepp’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Galenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 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.
Garlepp’s mouse (Galenomys garleppi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Galenomys. It is found in western Bolivia, southern Peru and possibly Chile at elevations over 3,000 m in the Altiplano.
Animals of the same family as a Garlepp’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater hamster-rat with 4 babies per litter
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Nikolaus’s mouse with a weight of 52 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Komodo rat with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Garlepp’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galenomys garleppi:
- Sulawesi rousette bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Oryzomys couesi bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Oxymycterus hucucha bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Cape York melomys bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale