It is hard to guess what a Temchuk’s bolo mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Temchuk’s bolo mouse (Bolomys temchuki) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Temchuk’s bolo mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Bolomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Temchuk’s bolo mouse (Necromys temchuki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Argentina.
Animals of the same family as a Temchuk’s bolo mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Pale gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
- Mongolian gerbil with a weight of 57 grams
- Hastings River mouse with a weight of 95 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Polynesian rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a weight of 196 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Temchuk’s bolo mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bolomys temchuki:
- Malayan water shrew bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Oecomys concolor bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Chiruromys lamia bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Rock vole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale