It is hard to guess what a Slender harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys gracilis) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Slender harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Slender 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 slender harvest mouse(Reithrodontomys gracilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. A small mouse-like rodent distributed throughout a portion Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Slender harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Holochilus brasiliensis with a weight of 155 grams
- Akodon albiventer with a weight of 26 grams
- Bibimys torresi with a weight of 28 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Montane fish-eating rat with a weight of 39 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Holochilus chacarius with a weight of 204 grams
- Pouched gerbil with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Slender harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys gracilis:
- Large-eared horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gray bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Delicate vesper mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- American water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Little Indian field mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Striped hairy-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender harvest mouse:
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mauritian tomb bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Slender harvest mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Slender harvest mouse: