It is hard to guess what a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse (Praomys tullbergi) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Praomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 5.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.1 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Tullberg’s soft-furred mouses can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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.
Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse or Tullberg’s praomys (Praomys tullbergi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, possibly Burkina Faso, and possibly Guinea-Bissau.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Animals of the same family as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a weight of 79 grams
- Southern African spiny mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Goldman’s water mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Arizona woodrat with a weight of 200 grams
- Western red-backed vole with a weight of 18 grams
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Large vesper mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a weight of 196 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Praomys tullbergi:
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Rudd’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Golden spiny mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Montane fish-eating rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Indian roundleaf bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse:
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland thicket rat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse:
- Sado mole
- Bunny rat
- Nicobar shrew
- Middle East blind mole-rat
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- White-tailed rat
- Desert warthog
- Major’s pine vole
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Japanese mountain mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse:
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Sundevall’s jird with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Collared pika with an average maximal age of 6 years