It is hard to guess what a Venezuelan climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Venezuelan climbing mouse (Rhipidomys venezuelae) on average weights 89 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Venezuelan climbing mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Rhipidomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Venezuelan climbing mouse (Rhipidomys venezuelae) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Venezuelan climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Andean vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transcaspian vole with 2 babies per litter
- Plains rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Rock vole with a weight of 39 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Bush rat with a weight of 124 grams
- Tarabundí vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Target rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Northern pygmy mouse with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Venezuelan climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhipidomys venezuelae:
- Sooretamys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Texas kangaroo rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Libyan jird bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Coruro bringing 101 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Chelemys macronyx bringing 72 grams to the scale