It is hard to guess what a Little native mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Little native mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Little native mouses have 3 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 native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus), also known as the delicate mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this little creature Kijbuk (Reverend Peterson Nganjmirra, personal comment in Goodfellow, Fauna of Kakadu and the Top End,1993).It is found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Little native mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Andean rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Giant white-tailed rat with a weight of 644 grams
- Harrington’s rat with a weight of 90 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little native mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys delicatulus:
- Fawn leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater sac-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Davy’s naked-backed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Geata mouse shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Dark-winged lesser house bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Hoary wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Silky pocket mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Little native mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little native mouse:
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Little native mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Little native mouse: