It is hard to guess what a Heath mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) on average weights 72 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Heath mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.7 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Heath mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) is a species of mouse in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice.
Animals of the same family as a Heath mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Least forest mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Chihuahuan mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a weight of 46 grams
- Woodland vole with a weight of 26 grams
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Lusitanian pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- Perote mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Gould’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Heath mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys shortridgei:
- Big bonneted bat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Southern flying squirrel bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Bunny rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- White-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Great fruit-eating bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Heath mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Heath mouse:
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dollman’s melomys with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Heath mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Heath mouse: