It is hard to guess what a Mearns’s grasshopper mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mearns’s grasshopper mouse (Onychomys arenicola) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Mearns’s grasshopper mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Onychomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 52.5 cm (1′ 9″).
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.
Mearns’s grasshopper mouse or the Chihuahuan grasshopper mouse (Onychomys arenicola) is a grasshopper mouse found in southwestern New Mexico, West Texas, and north-central Mexico. They are similar to Onychomys torridus, but differ in karyotype and size. This mouse is smaller in every regard except for the nasal length of the skull.They are found in semiarid habitat, prairie, and scrub. They feed largely on insects and other invertebrates, including scorpions. They also feed on small muroid rodents and pocket mice.
Animals of the same family as a Mearns’s grasshopper mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Jico deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Phillips’s gerbil with a weight of 127 grams
- Mesquite mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Cactus mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Mexican water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mearns’s grasshopper mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Onychomys arenicola:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Eastern pygmy possum bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Delectable soft-furred mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Cotton mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Greater round-eared bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale