It is hard to guess what a Woodland dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woodland dormouse (Graphiurus murinus) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Woodland dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Graphiurus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 5.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Woodland dormouses have 3 babies per litter.
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 woodland dormouse (Graphiurus murinus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is native to southern and eastern Africa and is also known as the African dormouse, African dwarf dormouse, African pygmy dormouse, or colloquially as micro squirrel. Found in limited numbers in the pet trade, it has complicated care requirements compared to other pet rodents. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical, moist montane forests and rivers.
Animals of the same family as a Woodland dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Hazel dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Garden dormouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Asian garden dormouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Forest dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Kellen’s dormouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Graphiurus murinus:
- White-footed vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- White-collared fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Big free-tailed bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Peromyscus maniculatus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woodland dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodland dormouse:
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Emilia’s gracile opossum with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woodland dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Woodland dormouse:
- Long-eared hedgehog
- Dolorous grass mouse
- Juniper vole
- Plains pocket gopher
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Woolly hare
- Cape golden mole
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Meerkat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland dormouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland dormouse:
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Garden dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Bahamian hutia with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Woylie with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years