It is hard to guess what a Golden Oldfield mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys aureus) on average weights 88 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Golden Oldfield mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Thomasomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 62 cm (2′ 1″).
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 Oldfield mouse or golden thomasomys (Thomasomys aureus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Both the common and genus name commemorate the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas who worked at the Natural History Museum, London and studied South American rodents.
Animals of the same family as a Golden Oldfield mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Père David’s vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 121 grams
- Red hocicudo with a weight of 82 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 100 grams
- Pale field rat with a weight of 169 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Microryzomys minutus with a weight of 13 grams
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per litter
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden Oldfield mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomasomys aureus:
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Big-eared hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Eastern mole bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Common mole-rat bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Darling Downs hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Patagonian opossum bringing 78 grams to the scale