How big does a Little native mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus) reaches an average size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 8 grams (0.02 lbs). A Little native mouse has 3 babies at once. The Little native mouse (genus: Pseudomys) 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 little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus), also known as the delicate mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this little creature Kijbuk (Reverend Peterson Nganjmirra, personal comment in Goodfellow, Fauna of Kakadu and the Top End,1993).It is found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Little native mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern pygmy mouse with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed jird with 2 babies per litter
- Golden Oldfield mouse with a weight of 88 grams
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Oecomys bicolor with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Little native mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little native mouse:
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mediterranean water shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Little native mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Little native mouse:
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
- Southern bog lemming
- Cheetah
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Lesser white-toothed shrew
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- White-tailed rat
Animals with the same weight as a Little native mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys delicatulus:
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Brown long-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pygmy round-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Gray climbing mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Hairy-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s mustached bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Indiana bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Toad mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale