It is hard to guess what a Jackson’s soft-furred mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jackson’s soft-furred mouse (Praomys jacksoni) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Jackson’s soft-furred mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Praomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Jackson’s soft-furred mouses have 3 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.
Jackson’s soft-furred mouse or Jackson’s praomys (Praomys jacksoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, arable land, and heavily degraded former forest.
Animals of the same family as a Jackson’s soft-furred mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Colombian forest mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Andean rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Northern pygmy mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- New Guinea waterside rat with a weight of 526 grams
- Tondano rat with 4 babies per litter
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jackson’s soft-furred mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Praomys jacksoni:
- Dorothy’s slender opossum bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Rock dormouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Cyclops roundleaf bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Jackson’s soft-furred mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Jackson’s soft-furred mouse: