It is hard to guess what a Greater big-footed mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater big-footed mouse (Macrotarsomys ingens) on average weights 55 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Greater big-footed mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Macrotarsomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″).
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 greater big-footed mouse or long-tailed big-footed mouse (Macrotarsomys ingens) is a nocturnal rodent found only in north west Madagascar. It was first described by F. Petter in 1959. It is listed as an endangered species as a result of habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Greater big-footed mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southern multimammate mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Western shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Arizona woodrat with a weight of 200 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Summit rat with a weight of 107 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater big-footed mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macrotarsomys ingens:
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Garlepp’s mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Andean swamp rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Andean rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed gymnure bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Rupp’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Alston’s cotton rat bringing 55 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater big-footed mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater big-footed mouse:
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)