It is hard to guess what a Gleaning mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gleaning mouse (Peromyscus spicilegus) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Gleaning mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.2 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.
The gleaning mouse (Peromyscus spicilegus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Gleaning mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Handleyomys melanotis with a weight of 50 grams
- North African gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Singing vole with a weight of 41 grams
- Guatemalan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Dressy Oldfield mouse with a weight of 76 grams
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat with a weight of 10 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Akodon sylvanus with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gleaning mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus spicilegus:
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Djoongari bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Chihuahuan mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Cuban fruit-eating bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Desert mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Southern bog lemming bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Small Luzon forest mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gleaning mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gleaning mouse:
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)