It is hard to guess what a Wood mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Wood mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Apodemus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 4.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.7 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Wood mouses can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a murid rodent native to Europe and northwestern Africa. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck, has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm (3.54 in) in length and 23 g in weight. It is found across most of Europe and is a very common and widespread species, is commensal with people and is sometimes considered a pest. Other common names are long-tailed field mouse, field mouse, common field mouse, and European wood mouse.
Animals of the same family as a Wood mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Arnhem Land rock rat with a weight of 94 grams
- Cairo spiny mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Slender rat with a weight of 109 grams
- Murree vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Oecomys concolor with a weight of 54 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a weight of 57 grams
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wood mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Apodemus sylvaticus:
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pygmy possum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Serotine bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wood mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wood mouse:
- Cape serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Stirton’s deer mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Marsh shrew with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Wood mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Wood mouse:
- Kultarr
- Lowland streaked tenrec
- Wongai ningaui
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Wyoming ground squirrel
- Pale field rat
- Yellow-necked mouse
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster
- Smoky shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Wood mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Wood mouse:
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- African striped weasel with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Silky pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years