It is hard to guess what a Pygmy mouse lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy mouse lemur (Microcebus myoxinus) on average weights 31 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Pygmy mouse lemur is from the family Cheirogaleidae (genus: Microcebus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Pygmy mouse lemurs have 2 babies per litter.
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 pygmy mouse lemur (Microcebus myoxinus), also known as Peters’ mouse lemur or dormouse lemur, is a primate weighing only 43–55 g (1.5–1.9 oz); it is the second smallest of the mouse lemurs. Its dorsal side is a rufous-brown colour, and creamy-white ventrally. It lives in dry deciduous forests.The pygmy mouse lemur measures around 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) (head-body length). Its small size and nocturnal nature made it difficult to locate for over a century, and was rediscovered in the Kirindy forest in western Madagascar in 1993. They are believed to inhabit other parts of the island, but so far have only been discovered in a localized area.The lemur rests during the day, and it has a tendency to sleep in the open, which increases the risk of predation; although this danger is somewhat mitigated by sleeping alone. It can also use the abandoned nests of the Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur (Mirza coquereli). During the mating season, sleeping sites of males are distributed over a much broader area than are female sites, indicating that male home ranges are larger than those of females. The home ranges of males overlap during the mating season, and males occasionally roam over long distances during a single night
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy mouse lemur
We found other animals of the Cheirogaleidae family:
- Northern rufous mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a weight of 197 grams
- Golden-brown mouse lemur with a weight of 58 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a weight of 326 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with a weight of 409 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur with a weight of 70 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with a weight of 447 grams
- Microcebus coquereli with a weight of 328 grams
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with a weight of 78 grams
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur with a weight of 33 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy mouse lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microcebus myoxinus:
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Molossops abrasus bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Common vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Myotis vivesi bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Brazilian shrew mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Sminthopsis laniger bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Puno grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy mouse lemur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pygmy mouse lemur:
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-footed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pygmy mouse lemur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Pygmy mouse lemur: