It is hard to guess what a Oligoryzomys andinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oligoryzomys andinus (Oligoryzomys andinus) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Oligoryzomys andinus is from the family Muridae (genus: Oligoryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 meter (6′ 7″).
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.
Oligoryzomys andinus, also known as the Andean colilargo or Andean pygmy rice rat, is a species of rodent in genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found in the Andes of southern Peru and western Bolivia, but may in fact include more than one species. Its karyotype has 2n = 60 and FNa = 70.
Animals of the same family as a Oligoryzomys andinus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eligmodontia typus with a weight of 17 grams
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 26 grams
- Northern grass mouse with a weight of 44 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Blackish grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Arianus’s rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Guatemalan vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Lesser tree mouse with a weight of 45 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oligoryzomys andinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oligoryzomys andinus:
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Percival’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Woodland dormouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Southern long-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Hairy-legged vampire bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale