It is hard to guess what a Greater tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater tree mouse (Chiruromys forbesi) on average weights 105 grams (0.23 lbs).
The Greater tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Chiruromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.4 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Greater tree 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 greater tree mouse (Chiruromys forbesi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Greater tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rümmler’s brush mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per litter
- Allen’s wood mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Père David’s vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a weight of 196 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a weight of 286 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiruromys forbesi:
- Rough-haired golden mole bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Kobe mole bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 118 grams to the scale
- European mole bringing 86 grams to the scale
- San Quintin kangaroo rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater tree mouse:
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giant kangaroo rat with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater tree mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Greater tree mouse: