It is hard to guess what a Mount Apo forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mount Apo forest mouse (Apomys hylocetes) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Mount Apo 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 Mount Apo forest mouse (Apomys hylocetes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Mount Apo forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Mesquite mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Rudd’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindoro striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil with a weight of 54 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Mount Apo forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys hylocetes:
- Japanese water shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Cyclops roundleaf bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Brazilian shrew mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Halmahera blossom bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mount Apo forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mount Apo forest mouse:
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Swift fruit bat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)