It is hard to guess what a Verreaux’s mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Verreaux’s mouse (Myomys verreauxii) on average weights 41 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Verreaux’s mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Myomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.1 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Verreaux’s mouse or Verreaux’s white-footed rat (Myomyscus verreauxii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in South Africa.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
Animals of the same family as a Verreaux’s mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rudd’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per litter
- Silky Oldfield mouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Luzon montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Verreaux’s mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myomys verreauxii:
- Dusky hopping mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Mountain pygmy possum bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Molossops abrasus bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- North African elephant shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Robbins’s tateril bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Pseudoryzomys bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Japanese water shrew bringing 35 grams to the scale