It is hard to guess what a Small vesper mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small vesper mouse (Calomys laucha) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Small vesper mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Calomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.7 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Small vesper mouses have 5 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 small vesper mouse (Calomys laucha) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is one of the hosts of hantavirus, causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Animals of the same family as a Small vesper mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Target rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Small-toothed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Southern vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Lakeland Downs mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- California red tree mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Ural field mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Sooretamys with a weight of 100 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Small vesper mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Calomys laucha:
- Greater forest shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Nyika climbing mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Spotted-winged fruit bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Silver fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Brown mastiff bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser red musk shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Small vesper mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Small vesper mouse: