How big does a Island mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Island mouse (Nesomys rufus) reaches an average size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 164 grams (0.36 lbs). The Island mouse (genus: Nesomys) is a member of the family Muridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The island mouse or eastern red forest rat (Nesomys rufus) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Island mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southwestern water vole with 3 babies per litter
- Soft-furred rat with 5 babies per litter
- Robert’s snow vole with 1 babies per litter
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Ruschi’s rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 57 grams
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Island mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Island mouse:
- Three-striped dasyure with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Island mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nesomys rufus:
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat bringing 196 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Dusky rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Piute ground squirrel bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 167 grams to the scale
- Perote ground squirrel bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Western nesomys bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Spectral bat bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale