It is hard to guess what a Southern big-eared mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern big-eared mouse (Auliscomys micropus) on average weights 70 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Southern big-eared mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Auliscomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.9 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Southern big-eared mouses have 3 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 southern big-eared mouse (Loxodontomys micropus), also known as the southern pericote, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina and Chile, and is one of only two species in its genus. The type specimen was captured by Charles Darwin in 1834 along the Santa Cruz River in Argentina, during the voyage of HMS Beagle, and was subsequently described by George Robert Waterhouse.
Animals of the same family as a Southern big-eared mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Greater tree mouse with a weight of 105 grams
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Bunker’s woodrat with a weight of 375 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a weight of 111 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil with a weight of 123 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil with a weight of 100 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern big-eared mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Auliscomys micropus:
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Montane Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Pygmy treeshrew bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Mamore arboreal rice rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Cape York melomys bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern big-eared mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Southern big-eared mouse: