It is hard to guess what a New Guinean jumping mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Guinean jumping mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuysi) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The New Guinean jumping mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Lorentzimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.1 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, New Guinean jumping mouses have 2 babies per litter.
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 New Guinean jumping mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuysi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a New Guinean jumping mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindoro striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Eastern rat with a weight of 230 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Southern bog lemming with a weight of 28 grams
- Smoke-bellied rat with 4 babies per litter
- Amazonian marsh rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Black-footed tree-rat with a weight of 716 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a New Guinean jumping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lorentzimys nouhuysi:
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Delicate slender opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Intermediate horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Dark-footed mouse shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Spiny pocket mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Asian barbastelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Kilimanjaro shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Pallid large-footed myotis bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Ghost-faced bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Guinean jumping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Guinean jumping mouse:
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spiny pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a New Guinean jumping mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a New Guinean jumping mouse: