It is hard to guess what a Slender Oldfield mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys gracilis) on average weights 77 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Slender Oldfield mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Thomasomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys gracilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Slender Oldfield mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- El Dorado grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 612 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat with a weight of 180 grams
- Hooper’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Hoary bamboo rat bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a weight of 46 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Slender Oldfield mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomasomys gracilis:
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s chipmunk bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Oecomys trinitatis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Biting chinchilla mouse bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Target rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- North American brown lemming bringing 69 grams to the scale