It is hard to guess what a Northern grasshopper mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Northern grasshopper mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Onychomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Northern grasshopper mouses can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster) is a North American carnivorous rodent of the family Cricetidae. It ranges over much of the western part of the continent, from central Saskatchewan and central Washington to Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Northern grasshopper mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Desert mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Siberian brown lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Watson’s climbing rat with 2 babies per litter
- Western harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Ethiopian striped mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Grey red-backed vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 117 grams
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern grasshopper mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Onychomys leucogaster:
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Wimmer’s shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- White-throated round-eared bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Western false pipistrelle bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Andean gerbil mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Graphiurus hueti bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern grasshopper mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern grasshopper mouse:
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater big-footed mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow jumping mouse with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern grasshopper mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Northern grasshopper mouse:
- Kivu long-haired shrew
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Nicobar shrew
- Hooper’s mouse
- Jackson’s shrew
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Graphiurus hueti
- Cape golden mole
- Swamp rabbit
- Molina’s grass mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern grasshopper mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern grasshopper mouse:
- African striped weasel with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Silky pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.83 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Abbott’s duiker with an average maximal age of 5.42 years