It is hard to guess what a Hazel dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Hazel dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Muscardinus). They can live for up to 6 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Hazel dormouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 hazel dormouse or common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is a small mammal and the only living species in the genus Muscardinus.
Animals of the same family as a Hazel dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Rock dormouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Desert dormouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woolly dormouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Garden dormouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Woodland dormouse with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hazel dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Muscardinus avellanarius:
- Hoary bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Black bonneted bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Southern long-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Panama slender opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys alfaroi bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Mindanao montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hazel dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hazel dormouse:
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- San Diego pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hazel dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Hazel dormouse:
- African pygmy mouse
- Gunnison’s prairie dog
- Nectomys squamipes
- Colorado chipmunk
- Rock squirrel
- North African gerbil
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- El Carrizo deer mouse
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Shrew gymnure
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hazel dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hazel dormouse:
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Xerus erythropus with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Mongolian gazelle with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Serotine bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years