It is hard to guess what a Typical striped grass mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Typical striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys striatus) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Typical striped grass mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Lemniscomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 2.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.2 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Typical striped grass mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 typical striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys striatus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha in the family Muridae.
Animals of the same family as a Typical striped grass mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 29 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis with a weight of 38 grams
- Incan hocicudo with a weight of 34 grams
- New Holland mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Northern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Typical striped grass mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lemniscomys striatus:
- Irenomys bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Andean big-eared mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Bushveld elephant shrew bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Lesser musky fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Spanish mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Typical striped grass mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Typical striped grass mouse:
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Great fruit-eating bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Panama slender opossum with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Typical striped grass mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Typical striped grass mouse:
- Sody’s tree rat
- San Joaquin pocket mouse
- African groove-toothed rat
- Large bamboo rat
- Montane wood mouse
- European mink
- Red fox
- Common vole
- Least chipmunk
- Altai mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Typical striped grass mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Typical striped grass mouse:
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Feather-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Asian house shrew with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Slender-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Eurasian water shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.17 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years