It is hard to guess what a Small Luzon forest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small Luzon forest mouse (Apomys microdon) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Small Luzon forest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 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 small Luzon forest mouse (Apomys microdon) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Small Luzon forest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Perote mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Siberian brown lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Small vesper mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Woodland vole with a weight of 26 grams
- Nayarit mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Jaliscan cotton rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Mongolian hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Small Luzon forest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apomys microdon:
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Rümmler’s brush mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Naked-rumped tomb bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Tarabundí vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Bibimys chacoensis bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Small Luzon forest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small Luzon forest mouse:
- Cliff chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)