It is hard to guess what a Large pencil-tailed tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys major) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Large pencil-tailed tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Chiropodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 large pencil-tailed tree mouse or greater pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys major) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Borneo where it is only known from Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), although it is likely to also occur in Kalimantan.
Animals of the same family as a Large pencil-tailed tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Red rock rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Sulawesi giant rat with a weight of 325 grams
- Emperor rat bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 119 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chibchan water mouse with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large pencil-tailed tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiropodomys major:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Black bonneted bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Geoxus valdivianus bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Sandhill dunnart bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Tonatia silvicola bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Southern African spiny mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Akodon boliviensis bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Pinyon mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Large pencil-tailed tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large pencil-tailed tree mouse:
- Usambara shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little collared fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)