It is hard to guess what a Olrog’s chaco mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Olrog’s chaco mouse (Andalgalomys olrogi) on average weights 32 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Olrog’s chaco mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Andalgalomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.6 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.
Olrog’s chaco mouse (Andalgalomys olrogi) is a species of South American rodent in the family Cricetidae, endemic to Argentina. The natural habitat of the species is hot deserts. Its karyotype has 2n = 60. The species is named after Swedish-Argentine biologist Claes C. Olrog.
Animals of the same family as a Olrog’s chaco mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sonoran harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Northern grass mouse with a weight of 44 grams
- Woodland thicket rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Defua rat with a weight of 43 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
- Short-haired water rat with a weight of 33 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 95 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Olrog’s chaco mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Andalgalomys olrogi:
- Chinese dormouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Andean gerbil mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Pacific jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Himalayan water shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Scolomys ucayalensis bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Olrog’s chaco mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Olrog’s chaco mouse:
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain pygmy possum with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)