It is hard to guess what a Romanian hamster weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Romanian hamster (Mesocricetus newtoni) on average weights 97 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Romanian hamster is from the family Muridae (genus: Mesocricetus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Romanian hamster or Dobrudja hamster (Mesocricetus newtoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Bulgaria and Romania.
Animals of the same family as a Romanian hamster
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Small vesper mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big deer mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Soft grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Little Indian field mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Romanian hamster
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesocricetus newtoni:
- Long-tailed hopping mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s chipmunk bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Roman mole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum bringing 93 grams to the scale