It is hard to guess what a Luzon Cordillera forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (Apomys abrae) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Luzon Cordillera 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 Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (Apomys abrae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Luzon Cordillera forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Shaw’s jird with a weight of 90 grams
- Silver mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 189 grams
- Balochistan gerbil with a weight of 25 grams
- Great Key Island giant rat with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat with a weight of 122 grams
- California vole with a weight of 57 grams
- White-eared cotton rat with a weight of 132 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Luzon Cordillera forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys abrae:
- Smith’s vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Hazel dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Mole-like rice tenrec bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Stolička’s mountain vole bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Grant’s rock mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Akodon sylvanus bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian thicket rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Northern mole vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Wood lemming bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Luzon Cordillera forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Luzon Cordillera forest mouse:
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern flying squirrel with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western jumping mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western shrew mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)