It is hard to guess what a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse (Praomys hartwigi) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Praomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Hartwig’s soft-furred 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.
Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse or Hartwig’s praomys (Praomys hartwigi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Cameroon.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Gray-tailed vole with a weight of 29 grams
- Northern bog lemming with a weight of 21 grams
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Texas mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Southern multimammate mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Praomys hartwigi:
- Pen-tailed treeshrew bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Common vampire bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Montane wood mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Fresno kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- White-bellied slender opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Dryad shrew tenrec bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Crested-tailed deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Black mastiff bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse:
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shining thicket rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse: