It is hard to guess what a Soft-furred Oldfield mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Soft-furred Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys laniger) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Soft-furred Oldfield mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Thomasomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.2 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 soft-furred Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys laniger) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Soft-furred Oldfield mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Ethiopian striped mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
- Persian jird with a weight of 108 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Coues’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Bank vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 80 grams
- European snow vole with a weight of 48 grams
- Red rock rat with a weight of 81 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Soft-furred Oldfield mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomasomys laniger:
- Plateau mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Field vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Hairy-legged vampire bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Pen-tailed treeshrew bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Soft-furred Oldfield mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Soft-furred Oldfield mouse:
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)