It is hard to guess what a Osgood’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Osgood’s mouse (Peromyscus gratus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Osgood’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 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.
Osgood’s mouse (Peromyscus gratus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico. Its name references Wilfred Hudson Osgood.
Animals of the same family as a Osgood’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Oryzomys gorgasi with a weight of 60 grams
- Large vesper mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-ankled mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Central rock rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 43 grams
- Oecomys cleberi with a weight of 73 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 62 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Osgood’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus gratus:
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- São Paulo grass mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- California red tree mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Little desert pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Scolomys ucayalensis bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat bringing 24 grams to the scale