It is hard to guess what a Narrow-nosed harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Narrow-nosed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys tenuirostris) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Narrow-nosed harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.7 cm (0′ 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 narrow-nosed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys tenuirostris) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Narrow-nosed harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Woolly giant rat with a weight of 116 grams
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 46 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per litter
- Miller’s striped mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Narrow-nosed harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys tenuirostris:
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Steppe field mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Tufted pygmy squirrel bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Silky mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Narrow-nosed harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Narrow-nosed harvest mouse:
- Western jumping mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater false vampire bat with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert dormouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)