It is hard to guess what a Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys muroides) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Chiropodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys muroides) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Borneo where it is known from Gunung Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia) and from Long Petak in northern Kalimantan (Indonesia). It probably has wider distribution than currently documented. Its natural habitat is montane tropical forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Soft grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Magdalena rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 18 grams
- Candango mouse with a weight of 97 grams
- Western pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiropodomys muroides:
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Taiwan field mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Scolomys melanops bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Puno grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Short-haired water rat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mountain mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse:
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Agile gracile opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese mole shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)