How big does a Steppe mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Steppe mouse (Mus spicilegus) reaches an average size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Talking about reproduction, Steppe mouses have 6 babies about 4 times per year. The Steppe mouse (genus: Mus) 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 steppe mouse or mound-building mouse (Mus spicilegus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in grassland and other open areas in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
Animals of the same family as a Steppe mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser ricefield rat with a weight of 104 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Greater big-footed mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 34 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Steppe mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steppe mouse:
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Marsh shrew with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mediterranean water shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Malagasy serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Steppe mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Steppe mouse: