It is hard to guess what a Silky mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silky mouse (Pseudomys apodemoides) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Silky mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Silky mouses can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 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 silky mouse (Pseudomys apodemoides) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Silky mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southern bog lemming with a weight of 28 grams
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Emin’s gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
- Hoary bamboo rat bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Chestnut climbing mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- African smoky mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Northern bog lemming with a weight of 21 grams
- Neacomys spinosus with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Silky mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys apodemoides:
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hairy harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Drylands vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui harvest mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Greenish yellow bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Silky mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Silky mouse:
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- European free-tailed bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Parantechinus bilarni with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Silky mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Silky mouse: