It is hard to guess what a Highland brush mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Highland brush mouse (Abeomelomys sevia) on average weights 54 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Highland brush mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Abeomelomys). 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:
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 119 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Flat-haired mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Peters’s climbing rat with a weight of 182 grams
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bunny rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Desert mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Abyssinian grass rat with a weight of 73 grams
- JunÃn grass mouse with a weight of 39 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 Abeomelomys sevia:
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Great evening bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed mole bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 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:
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Townsend’s vole with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chestnut tree mouse with a size of 11.5 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: