It is hard to guess what a Lindbergh’s grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lindbergh’s grass mouse (Akodon lindberghi) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Lindbergh’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.
Lindbergh’s grass mouse (Akodon lindberghi) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Lindbergh’s grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat with a weight of 148 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus with a weight of 49 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
- Murree vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Cursor grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Large vesper mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird with a weight of 56 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Muskrat with a weight of 992 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lindbergh’s grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon lindberghi:
- Schreber’s yellow bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Japanese mountain mole bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Buffoon striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Crafty vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Hazel dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Narrow-headed slender opossum bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Smoky grass mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Yellow steppe lemming bringing 26 grams to the scale