It is hard to guess what a Short-nosed harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-nosed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys brevirostris) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Short-nosed harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Short-nosed harvest mouses have 3 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 short-nosed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys brevirostris) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Animals of the same family as a Short-nosed harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Tarabundí vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Mexican vole with a weight of 34 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Toad mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
- Ryukyu mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Rajah spiny rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 64 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Short-nosed harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys brevirostris:
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Kellen’s dormouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rufous trident bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Darien harvest mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Western pebble-mound mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Short-nosed harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Short-nosed harvest mouse:
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-clawed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Short-nosed harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Short-nosed harvest mouse: