It is hard to guess what a Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis xanthopygus) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Phyllotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 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 yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis xanthopygus) otherwise known as the Patagonian leaf-eared mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae and order Rodentia. It is the most widespread member of the genus.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Koford’s grass mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus with a weight of 60 grams
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 31 grams
- Greater hamster-rat with 4 babies per litter
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Eva’s desert mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Akodon budini with a weight of 26 grams
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phyllotis xanthopygus:
- Shining thicket rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltepec bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys auriventer bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Ammodile bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse:
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hottentot golden mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)