It is hard to guess what a Brush mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brush mouse (Peromyscus boylii) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Brush mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 1.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.2 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Brush mouses have 3 babies per litter.
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 brush mouse (Peromyscus boylii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in mountainous areas of Mexico and the western United States at altitudes over 2,000 m (6,600 ft).
Animals of the same family as a Brush mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Abrothrix sanborni with a weight of 24 grams
- Sandy inland mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- White-tailed antsangy with a weight of 205 grams
- Charming climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Eastern rat with a weight of 230 grams
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 57 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brush mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus boylii:
- Kemp’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Ugandan musk shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Agile gracile opossum bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Least forest mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys arenalis bringing 25 grams to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Brush mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Brush mouse:
- Juniper vole
- Hoary bamboo rat
- European pine marten
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Great jerboa
- Juniper vole
- Southern mole vole
- Namaqua rock rat
- White-ankled mouse
- Savanna gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brush mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brush mouse:
- Creeping vole with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Tundra vole with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Montane shrew with an average maximal age of 1.33 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- American water shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years