It is hard to guess what a Golden mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Golden mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Ochrotomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 2.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.2 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Golden mouses have 2 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.
The golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) is a species of New World mouse. It is usually 5–8 inches (12–25 cm) in body length, and has a soft pelage that ranges from golden-brownish to burnt orange in color. The genus name comes from the Greek words, “ochre”, a yellow or brown earth pigment, and “mys,” meaning mouse.
Animals of the same family as a Golden mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-footed mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per litter
- Ryukyu spiny rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Soft grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus with a weight of 13 grams
- Northern hopping mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochrotomys nuttalli:
- Taiwan field mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Stripe-faced dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys microtis bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Lined pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Wood sprite gracile opossum bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Nigerian shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Golden mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden mouse:
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Golden mouse:
- Common yellow-toothed cavy
- African wading rat
- Fawn hopping mouse
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Leopard
- Cameroon clawless otter
- Asian black bear
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Cape ground squirrel
- Common gundi
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Golden mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Golden mouse:
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Highland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with an average maximal age of 3 years