It is hard to guess what a Toad mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Toad mouse (Mus bufo) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Toad mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 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.
The toad mouse (Mus bufo) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and arable land.
Animals of the same family as a Toad mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Aquatic rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Big deer mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Delicate vesper mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Balochistan gerbil with a weight of 25 grams
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a weight of 71 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Toad mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mus bufo:
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Tasmanian pygmy possum bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Darling’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chestnut sac-winged bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Sclater’s shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Mato Grosso dog-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale