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How much does a Mearns’s grasshopper mouse weight?

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.

The average adult weight of a Mearns's grasshopper mouse is 30 grams (0.07 lbs)

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:

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: