It is hard to guess what a Least forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Least forest mouse (Apomys musculus) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Least forest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 least forest mouse (Apomys musculus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Least forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Grey red-backed vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Oldfield mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Winkelmann’s mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Cape spiny mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Malayan field rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Crab-eating rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Paramo Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Least forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys musculus:
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Egyptian tomb bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Brazilian big-eyed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Ural field mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- African yellow bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Lesser false vampire bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Least forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Least forest mouse:
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cotton mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)