It is hard to guess what a Miller’s striped mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Miller’s striped mouse (Hybomys planifrons) on average weights 49 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Miller’s striped mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Hybomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.11 meter (3′ 8″).
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.
Miller’s striped mouse or the Liberian forest hybomys (Hybomys planifrons) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Animals of the same family as a Miller’s striped mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Black-eared mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus with a weight of 27 grams
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
- Sonoran woodrat with a weight of 227 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Plateau mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 25 grams
- Savi’s pine vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Common rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 89 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Miller’s striped mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hybomys planifrons:
- Paramo hocicudo bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Black-bellied fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Four-striped grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Pale gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale