It is hard to guess what a Krebs’s fat mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Krebs’s fat mouse (Steatomys krebsii) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Krebs’s fat mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Steatomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Krebs’s fat mouses have 4 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 Krebs’s fat mouse (Steatomys krebsii) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. Its name honours Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792–1844), a German natural history collector in South Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Krebs’s fat mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 210 grams
- Oecomys paricola with a weight of 73 grams
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per litter
- Plateau mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Southern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Ruschi’s rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Krebs’s fat mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Steatomys krebsii:
- Long-tailed pygmy possum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Eastern shrew mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Japanese shrew mole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Common blossom bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Little desert pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- White-bellied yellow bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Krebs’s fat mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Krebs’s fat mouse: