It is hard to guess what a Monte gerbil mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Monte gerbil mouse (Eligmodontia moreni) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Monte gerbil mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Eligmodontia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.92 meter (6′ 4″).
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 Monte gerbil mouse or Monte laucha (Eligmodontia moreni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Monte gerbil mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Hinde’s rock rat with a weight of 141 grams
- Korean field mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Oligoryzomys flavescens with a weight of 21 grams
- Oryzomys gorgasi with a weight of 60 grams
- True’s vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Chestnut climbing mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Oecomys rutilus with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Monte gerbil mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eligmodontia moreni:
- Grey-bellied dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- African smoky mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Great Basin pocket mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Hairy harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Spotted free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale