It is hard to guess what a Little Indian field mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little Indian field mouse (Mus booduga) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Little Indian field mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Little Indian field mouses have 5 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 little Indian field mouse (Mus booduga) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Animals of the same family as a Little Indian field mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 189 grams
- Alpine woolly rat bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Nectomys squamipes with a weight of 185 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 64 grams
- Common rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 89 grams
- Laminate vlei rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Dusky rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 26 grams
- Fat sand rat with a weight of 102 grams
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat with a weight of 138 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little Indian field mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mus booduga:
- Ooldea dunnart bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Dark-footed mouse shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Silver fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Little long-tailed dunnart bringing 14 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Little Indian field mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Little Indian field mouse: