It is hard to guess what a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-tailed bolo mouse (Necromys lasiurus) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Hairy-tailed bolo mouse is from the family Cricetidae (genus: Necromys). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.4 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Hairy-tailed bolo mouses have 4 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 hairy-tailed bolo mouse or hairy-tailed akodont (Necromys lasiurus) is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
We found other animals of the Cricetidae family:
- Grey red-backed vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Hylaeamys laticeps with a weight of 49 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
- Big-eared woodrat with a weight of 225 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus with a weight of 49 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Necromys lasiurus:
- Day’s grass mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Greater broad-nosed bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Northern hopping mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Chinanteco deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Naked-eared deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Singing vole bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Minor epauletted fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-tailed bolo mouse:
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse: