It is hard to guess what a Southern birch mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern birch mouse (Sicista subtilis) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Southern birch mouse is from the family Dipodidae (genus: Sicista). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″). Normally, Southern birch mouses can have babies 1 times a year.
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 birch mouse (Sicista subtilis) is a species of birch mouse in the family Dipodidae. It is found on the Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Romania, southern Russia and one isolated location in Hungary in the Borsodi Mezőség Protected Landscape Area. The Hungarian subspecies (S. subtilis trizona) is critically endangered and strictly protected. The first living specimen was captured after a 70-year-long hiatus in 2006.The most prominent characteristic of the southern birch mouse is the dark stripe down the center of the back, which is bordered by two narrow bright stripes on both sides. From head to rump it measures from 56 to 72 mm, with a tail from 110 to 130% of the main body length. The background fur color is gray-brown.The southern birch mouse is pronouncedly a steppe dweller. It makes a burrow in the summer and hibernates. It eats green plants and insects.
Animals of the same family as a Southern birch mouse
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Small five-toed jerboa with a weight of 59 grams
- Blanford’s jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Northern three-toed jerboa with a weight of 89 grams
- Euphrates jerboa with a weight of 232 grams
- Meadow jumping mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Greater Egyptian jerboa with a weight of 138 grams
- Comb-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa with a weight of 52 grams
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Altai birch mouse with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern birch mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sicista subtilis:
- Hinde’s lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pacific shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Arizona pocket mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Greater white-toothed shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Alston’s brown mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Paucident planigale bringing 9 grams to the scale