It is hard to guess what a Mindanao montane forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mindanao montane forest mouse (Apomys insignis) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Mindanao montane 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 montane forest mouse (Apomys insignis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mindanao montane forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Sulawesi giant rat with a weight of 325 grams
- Nyika climbing mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Aztec mouse with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mindanao montane forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys insignis:
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Greater broad-nosed bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Common rock rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s bonneted bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Plateau mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Cochabamba grass mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed false antechinus bringing 36 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mindanao montane 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 montane forest mouse:
- Lodgepole chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)