It is hard to guess what a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse (Pogonomelomys mayeri) on average weights 111 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pogonomelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.4 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Shaw Mayer’s brush mouses 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.
Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse (Pogonomelomys mayeri) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Biting chinchilla mouse with a weight of 82 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Paramo hocicudo with a weight of 41 grams
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Robert’s hocicudo with a weight of 83 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 82 grams
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a weight of 356 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pogonomelomys mayeri:
- Isarog shrew-rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Lowland streaked tenrec bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Rough-haired golden mole bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 118 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Sage’s rock rat bringing 96 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Shaw Mayer’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 Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse: