It is hard to guess what a Yellow-bellied climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-bellied climbing mouse (Rhipidomys ochrogaster) on average weights 59 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Yellow-bellied 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 yellow-bellied climbing mouse (Rhipidomys ochrogaster) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from southeastern Peru, where it has been found in cloud forest at an elevation of 1830 m. This species was long known only by the type collection until it was rediscovered in May 2010.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-bellied climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Luzon montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a weight of 356 grams
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Japen rat with a weight of 380 grams
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared cotton rat with a weight of 132 grams
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mongolian gerbil with a weight of 57 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-bellied climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhipidomys ochrogaster:
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Andean rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale