It is hard to guess what a Microryzomys minutus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Microryzomys minutus (Microryzomys minutus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Microryzomys minutus is from the family Muridae (genus: Microryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.6 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Microryzomys minutus, also known as the montane colilargo or the forest small rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Microryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, but these populations may represent more than one species.
Animals of the same family as a Microryzomys minutus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dressy Oldfield mouse with a weight of 76 grams
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Dolorous grass mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Arctic lemming with a weight of 78 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Olive montane mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Western red-backed vole with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Microryzomys minutus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microryzomys minutus:
- Miller’s long-tongued bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Pond bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- True’s shrew mole bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pallid large-footed myotis bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Malayan slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Southern yellow bat bringing 12 grams to the scale