It is hard to guess what a Highland brush mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Highland brush mouse (Pogonomelomys sevia) on average weights 54 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Highland brush mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pogonomelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Highland brush mouses have 1 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 highland brush mouse (Abeomelomys sevia), also known as the Menzies’ mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, and is found in montane moss forests and in alpine zones over 2,000 m. It is the only species in the genus Abeomelomys, although it has been placed in Pogonomelomys in the past.
Animals of the same family as a Highland brush mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut climbing mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Mexican volcano mouse with a weight of 44 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Subalpine woolly rat bringing 1.99 kilos (4.39 lbs) to the scale
- Neacomys spinosus with a weight of 19 grams
- Desert woodrat with a weight of 144 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Highland brush mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pogonomelomys sevia:
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Single-striped grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Mexican mouse opossum bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys galapagoensis bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys melanotis bringing 50 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Highland brush mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Highland brush mouse:
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Handley’s slender opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Highland brush mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Highland brush mouse: