It is hard to guess what a Steppe field mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Steppe field mouse (Apodemus witherbyi) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Steppe field mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apodemus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.7 cm (1′ 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 steppe field mouse (Apodemus witherbyi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and probably Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. The Mount Hermon field mouse (sometimes recognized as a distinct species: A. hermonensis) and the yellow-breasted field mouse (sometimes recognized as a distinct species: A. fulvipectus) were considered conspecific with the steppe field mouse by Musser and Carleton (2005).
Animals of the same family as a Steppe field mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Edward’s swamp rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Tarabundí vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Algerian mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Bolaños woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Guinea multimammate mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Steppe field mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apodemus witherbyi:
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Egyptian tomb bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys microtis bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pocket mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern short-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lesser false vampire bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale