It is hard to guess what a São Paulo grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult São Paulo grass mouse (Akodon sanctipaulensis) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The São Paulo grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.8 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 São Paulo grass mouse (Akodon sanctipaulensis) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a São Paulo grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Nephelomys levipes with a weight of 60 grams
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 57 grams
- African marsh rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Puno grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Andean big-eared mouse with a weight of 38 grams
Animals with the same weight as a São Paulo grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon sanctipaulensis:
- Rümmler’s brush mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Railer bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Short-palated fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Little red kaluta bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Puno grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys arenalis bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a São Paulo grass mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as São Paulo grass mouse:
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-footed mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)