It is hard to guess what a Lesser tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser tree mouse (Chiruromys vates) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Lesser tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Chiruromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Lesser tree mouses have 1 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 lesser tree mouse (Chiruromys vates) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ryukyu spiny rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Smoke-bellied rat with 4 babies per litter
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Irenomys with a weight of 43 grams
- Chiruromys lamia with a weight of 47 grams
- Algerian mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiruromys vates:
- Red-tailed phascogale bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Andean big-eared mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Woodland thicket rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys laticeps bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Chaco grass mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Brown mouse lemur bringing 48 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser tree mouse:
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Monito del monte with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser tree mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser tree mouse: