It is hard to guess what a Mindanao lowland forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mindanao lowland forest mouse (Apomys littoralis) on average weights 31 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Mindanao lowland forest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Mindanao lowland forest mouse (Apomys littoralis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mindanao lowland forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Big deer mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Heath mouse with a weight of 72 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Black rat with a weight of 142 grams
- Desert mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Northeast African mole-rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Greater big-footed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- White-footed mouse with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mindanao lowland forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys littoralis:
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Texas mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Olrog’s chaco mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Chinese dormouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Malayan free-tailed bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Zacatecan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Intelligent grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mindanao lowland forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mindanao lowland forest mouse:
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)