It is hard to guess what a Togo mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Togo mouse (Leimacomys buettneri) on average weights 55 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Togo mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Leimacomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Togo mouse (Leimacomys buettneri), also known as Büttner’s African forest mouse or the groove-toothed forest mouse, is a unique muroid rodent known from only two specimens taken from near the type locality of Bismarckburg, near Yege, Togo, in 1890. Its genus is monotypic.
Animals of the same family as a Togo mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Little Indian field mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Typical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Edward’s swamp rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Texas mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Gracile tateril with a weight of 49 grams
- Hastings River mouse with a weight of 95 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Togo mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leimacomys buettneri:
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Indian bush rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Ammodile bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Puebla deer mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale