It is hard to guess what a Temminck’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Temminck’s mouse (Mus musculoides) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Temminck’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.1 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Temminck’s 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.
Temminck’s mouse (Mus musculoides) is a species of the genus Mus and of the subgenus Nannomys. It is found throughout West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa. An adult generally weighs 0.006 kg.
Animals of the same family as a Temminck’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Michoacan deer mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
- Notiomys with a weight of 21 grams
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda with a weight of 52 grams
- Brown deer mouse with a weight of 66 grams
- Cauca climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Temminck’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mus musculoides:
- Fawn leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Gray climbing mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern little yellow-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little brown bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Orange leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tasmanian pygmy possum bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Temminck’s mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Temminck’s mouse:
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Temminck’s mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Temminck’s mouse: