It is hard to guess what a Island mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Island mouse (Nesomys rufus) on average weights 164 grams (0.36 lbs).
The Island mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Nesomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.8 cm (0′ 9″).
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 island mouse or eastern red forest rat (Nesomys rufus) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Island mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Mexican woodrat with a weight of 203 grams
- Gould’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis with a weight of 28 grams
- King rat (animal) with a weight of 420 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Island mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nesomys rufus:
- Stephen’s woodrat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Mexican ground squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Spectral bat bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Maxomys baeodon bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat bringing 170 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Island mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Island mouse:
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Three-striped ground squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Small flying fox with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cape ground squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)