It is hard to guess what a Rümmler’s brush mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rümmler’s brush mouse (Coccymys ruemmleri) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Rümmler’s brush mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Coccymys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.1 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.
Rümmler’s brush mouse or Rümmler’s mouse (Coccymys ruemmleri) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Rümmler’s brush mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Transandinomys talamancae with a weight of 54 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Mindoro striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Akodon spegazzinii with a weight of 28 grams
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Chestnut white-bellied rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per litter
- Spy hocicudo with a weight of 81 grams
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a weight of 45 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rümmler’s brush mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Coccymys ruemmleri:
- North African gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Large Asian roundleaf bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Geoxus valdivianus bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Egyptian tomb bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Pacific jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rümmler’s brush mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rümmler’s brush mouse:
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eurasian water shrew with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)