It is hard to guess what a Koford’s grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Koford’s grass mouse (Akodon kofordi) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Koford’s grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.7 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
Koford’s grass mouse (Akodon kofordi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Peru. It is named after American biologist Carl B. Koford.
Animals of the same family as a Koford’s grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a weight of 356 grams
- Texas mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 102 grams
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 612 grams
- Peters’s mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Cape gerbil with a weight of 92 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 144 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Aquatic rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Canyon mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Koford’s grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon kofordi:
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Southern African spiny mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Mexican vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Geoxus valdivianus bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Soft grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale