It is hard to guess what a Single-striped grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Single-striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys rosalia) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Single-striped grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Lemniscomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.1 cm (0′ 5″).
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 single-striped grass mouse or single-striped lemniscomys (Lemniscomys rosalia) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are moist savanna and arable land.
Animals of the same family as a Single-striped grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Southern bog lemming with a weight of 28 grams
- Cotton mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Zempoaltepec with a weight of 58 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Golden hamster with a weight of 98 grams
- Sula rat with a weight of 131 grams
- Pinyon mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Abrothrix jelskii with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Single-striped grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lemniscomys rosalia:
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Eastern rock elephant shrew bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Mongolian gerbil bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Social vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- El Carrizo deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale