It is hard to guess what a Geoxus valdivianus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Geoxus valdivianus (Geoxus valdivianus) on average weights 31 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Geoxus valdivianus is from the family Muridae (genus: Geoxus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.2 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Geoxus valdivianuss 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.
Geoxus valdivianus, also known as the long-clawed mole mouse or Valdivian long-clawed akodont, is a species of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae found in the Valdivian temperate rain forests and Magellanic subpolar forests of Argentina and Chile. It is one of two species in the genus Geoxus.
Animals of the same family as a Geoxus valdivianus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Handleyomys alfaroi with a weight of 33 grams
- Plains harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Gleaning mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Alpine pine vole with a weight of 23 grams
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Midday jird with 5 babies per litter
- Little Indian field mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Geoxus valdivianus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geoxus valdivianus:
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Woolly horseshoe bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Molina’s grass mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Tarabundí vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Pale spear-nosed bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Geoxus valdivianus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Geoxus valdivianus: