It is hard to guess what a Snow-footed Oldfield mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Snow-footed Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys niveipes) on average weights 54 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Snow-footed Oldfield mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Thomasomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 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 snow-footed Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys niveipes) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Snow-footed Oldfield mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Big deer mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pseudoryzomys with a weight of 45 grams
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 104 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Silent grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Bolam’s mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Snow-footed Oldfield mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomasomys niveipes:
- Northern collared lemming bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Red mouse opossum bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Agile kangaroo rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Marsh rice rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Mindomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Chestnut tree mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Snow-footed Oldfield mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Snow-footed Oldfield mouse:
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prairie vole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)