It is hard to guess what a Mearns’s pouched mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mearns’s pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) on average weights 64 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Mearns’s pouched mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Saccostomus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Mearns’s pouched 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.
Mearns’s pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, hot deserts, and arable land.
Animals of the same family as a Mearns’s pouched mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Nayarit mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Algerian mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Neacomys guianae with a weight of 15 grams
- Smoky mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Charming climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Cape York melomys with a weight of 70 grams
- Percival’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Senegal gerbil with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mearns’s pouched mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saccostomus mearnsi:
- Oecomys paricola bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Large fruit-eating bat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Oecomys trinitatis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Madagascan rousette bringing 65 grams to the scale
- North American brown lemming bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi rousette bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Ruschi’s rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Mearns’s pouched mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Mearns’s pouched mouse: