It is hard to guess what a Southern climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern climbing mouse (Rhipidomys austrinus) on average weights 89 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Southern climbing mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Rhipidomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21 cm (0′ 9″).
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 climbing mouse (Rhipidomys austrinus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia in forested valleys and on slopes on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains.
Animals of the same family as a Southern climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus with a weight of 25 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Delicate mouse with 1 babies per litter
- Altiplano grass mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Indian gerbil with a weight of 138 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhipidomys austrinus:
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Chelemys macronyx bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Long-footed water rat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Kobe mole bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Oecomys trinitatis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Gray short-tailed opossum bringing 94 grams to the scale