It is hard to guess what a Taiwan field mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Taiwan field mouse (Apodemus semotus) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Taiwan field mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apodemus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.1 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Taiwan field 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 Taiwan field mouse, also called Formosan wood mouse (Apodemus semotus), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Taiwan.The Taiwan field mouse is primarily distributed in the montane region between 1,400 and 3,000 m. They inhabit various habitat types, such as natural or planted forests, grasslands, farms, and campsites, and are omnivorous feeding on plants, insects and fungi.Based on morphological measurements, it has been suggested that the Taiwan field mouse is not different from the South China field mouse (Apodemus draco), and should not be considered as a separate species.The Taiwan field mouse is sexually dimorphic, with male generally larger than females (male: 25.6 ± 0.5 g; female: 23.8 ± 0.5 g). Mark-capture-recapture data suggest that their life span may be less than 1 year in the wild.
Animals of the same family as a Taiwan field mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater tree mouse with a weight of 105 grams
- Angular hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Tanezumi rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Naked-eared deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Black-eared mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Acacia rat with a weight of 77 grams
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with a weight of 146 grams
- Arizona cotton rat with a weight of 198 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 121 grams
- Musso’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwan field mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apodemus semotus:
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Cozumel harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Yellow-winged bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Stolička’s mountain vole bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Taiwan field mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Taiwan field mouse:
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aberdare mole shrew with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Canyon mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiga shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Taiwan field mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Taiwan field mouse: