It is hard to guess what a Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys pusillus) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Small pencil-tailed tree mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Chiropodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 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 small pencil-tailed tree mouse or lesser pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys pusillus) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Borneo where it is only known from Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) and from southern Kalimantan (Indonesia), although it likely occurs more widely.
Animals of the same family as a Small pencil-tailed tree mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Red spiny rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Muskrat with a weight of 992 grams
- Rock vole with a weight of 39 grams
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 210 grams
- Oryzomys gorgasi with a weight of 60 grams
- Wood mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Small pencil-tailed tree mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiropodomys pusillus:
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Serotine bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Andean gerbil mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Zacatecan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Small pencil-tailed tree mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small pencil-tailed tree mouse:
- Aberdare mole shrew with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panama slender opossum with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)