It is hard to guess what a Sonoran harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sonoran harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys burti) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Sonoran harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Sonoran harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys burti) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Sonoran harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 18 grams
- Luzon broad-toothed rat with a weight of 268 grams
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat with a weight of 397 grams
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Rakali with a weight of 626 grams
- Laminate vlei rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sonoran harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys burti:
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Agile gracile opossum bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Cape spiny mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Hairy harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui harvest mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale