It is hard to guess what a Rock dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rock dormouse (Graphiurus platyops) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Rock dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Graphiurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Rock dormouses have 5 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 rock dormouse or flat-headed African dormouse (Graphiurus platyops) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is found in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe where it lives among rocks in upland areas. It is a fairly common, mainly nocturnal species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Rock dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Spectacled dormouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Garden dormouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Asian garden dormouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Graphiurus hueti with a weight of 30 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Edible dormouse with a weight of 128 grams
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Rock dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Graphiurus platyops:
- Emin’s gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Michoacan deer mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- California mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Cabrera’s vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Indian roundleaf bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Rock dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Rock dormouse: