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How old does a Brants’s climbing mouse get? (age expectancy)

What is the maximal age a Brants’s climbing mouse reaches?

An adult Brants’s climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) usually gets as old as 3.25 years.

When born, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Nesomyidae family (genus: Dendromus), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″).

As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.

Brants’s climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Animals of the same family as a Brants’s climbing mouse

Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Nesomyidae):

Animals that reach the same age as Brants’s climbing mouse

With an average age of 3.25 years, Brants’s climbing mouse are in good companionship of the following animals:

Animals with the same number of babies Brants’s climbing mouse

The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:

Weighting as much as Brants’s climbing mouse

A fully grown Brants’s climbing mouse reaches around 10 grams (0.02 lbs). So do these animals: