It is hard to guess what a Gray climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray climbing mouse (Dendromus melanotis) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Gray climbing mouse is from the family Nesomyidae (genus: Dendromus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.4 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Gray climbing mouses have 3 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 gray climbing mouse (Dendromus melanotis) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and temperate desert.
Animals of the same family as a Gray climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Nesomyidae family:
- Lovat’s climbing mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Hairy-tailed antsangy with a weight of 219 grams
- Western nesomys with a weight of 155 grams
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a weight of 93 grams
- Brants’s climbing mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 75 grams
- White-bellied nesomys with a weight of 214 grams
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendromus melanotis:
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater dog-like bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Yellow serotine bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Egyptian slit-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Little broad-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Leach’s single leaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Mount Kenya mole shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray climbing mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Gray climbing mouse: