It is hard to guess what a Canyon mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Canyon mouse (Peromyscus crinitus) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Canyon mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Canyon mouses can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 canyon mouse (Peromyscus crinitus), is a gray-brown mouse found in many states of the western United States and northern Mexico. Its preferred habitat is arid, rocky desert. It is the only species in the Peromyscus crinitus species group.Canyon mice eat seeds, green vegetation, and insects. They breed in the spring and summer. Females can produce multiple litters of between two and five young every year. Canyon mice are nocturnal and are active through the year. They usually nest among or below rocks in burrows.
Animals of the same family as a Canyon mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Guatemalan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Mexican woodrat with a weight of 203 grams
- Neacomys guianae with a weight of 15 grams
- Allen’s cotton rat with a weight of 174 grams
- Transbaikal zokor with a weight of 259 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Canyon mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus crinitus:
- Luzon fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Delicate slender opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Montane white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Ural field mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- New Holland mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Canyon mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Canyon mouse:
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-footed mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese shrew mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Parantechinus bilarni with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Canyon mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Canyon mouse: