It is hard to guess what a Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys mittendorfi) on average weights 41 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Lemniscomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.1 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.
Mittendorf’s lemniscomys or Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys mittendorfi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Cameroon where it is found at high elevations on a single mountain. Its natural habitat is tropical high-altitude grassland. It faces no particular threats and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Abrothrix longipilis with a weight of 38 grams
- Hairy harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
- Pinyon mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Oecomys rex with a weight of 73 grams
- Indian gerbil with a weight of 138 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Mayor’s mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Gray-tailed vole with a weight of 29 grams
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lemniscomys mittendorfi:
- Naked-eared deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Robbins’s tateril bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Lukolela swamp rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- San José Island kangaroo rat bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Indian roundleaf bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Montane wood mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse:
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)