It is hard to guess what a Golden-brown mouse lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden-brown mouse lemur (Microcebus ravelobensis) on average weights 58 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Golden-brown mouse lemur is from the family Cheirogaleidae (genus: Microcebus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 cm (0′ 6″).
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 golden-brown mouse lemur (Microcebus ravelobensis), also known as the Lac Ravelobe mouse lemur or the Ravelobe mouse lemur, is part of the family, Cheirogaleidae. These are the smallest species of lemur and are all arboreal, nocturnal, and typically social. All species of Lemur are native to the island of Madagascar. The golden-brown mouse lemur, Microcebus ravelobensis, was first discovered in 1994.
Animals of the same family as a Golden-brown mouse lemur
We found other animals of the Cheirogaleidae family:
- Brown mouse lemur with a weight of 48 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur with a weight of 70 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a weight of 326 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with a weight of 409 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur with a weight of 49 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a weight of 31 grams
- Microcebus coquereli with a weight of 328 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with a weight of 447 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur with a weight of 33 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden-brown mouse lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microcebus ravelobensis:
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed gerbil bringing 47 grams to the scale
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Nikolaus’s mouse bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale