It is hard to guess what a Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys calamianensis) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Chiropodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 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.
The Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys calamianensis) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Muridae. It is known from lowland forest near sea level, coconut groves, and bamboo thickets. It is endemic to the Palawan Faunal Region in the Philippines. It has been recorded on Balabac, Busuanga, Palawan, Dumaran, and Calauit islands.
Animals of the same family as a Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Delectable soft-furred mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni with a weight of 24 grams
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Zempoaltepec with a weight of 58 grams
- New Guinean rat with a weight of 133 grams
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Eastern harvest mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Beaded wood mouse with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiropodomys calamianensis:
- Serotine bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Southern bog lemming bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Brush mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Intelligent grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Soft grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Northern gracile opossum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Southern African spiny mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse:
- Sagebrush vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow jumping mouse with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)