It is hard to guess what a White-footed mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The White-footed mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 3.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). On average, White-footed mouses can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces (excluding the island of Newfoundland) to the southwest United States and Mexico. In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia. It is also known as the woodmouse, particularly in Texas.
Animals of the same family as a White-footed mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Acacia rat with a weight of 77 grams
- Lundomys with a weight of 238 grams
- African marsh rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Oecomys rutilus with a weight of 73 grams
- Rakali with a weight of 626 grams
- Mongolian gerbil with a weight of 57 grams
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a White-footed mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus leucopus:
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Melissa’s yellow-eared bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Western pygmy possum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Père David’s vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-footed mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-footed mouse:
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-footed mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a White-footed mouse:
- Rudd’s mouse
- Turkestan rat
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Sand cat
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat
- California pocket mouse
- Bank vole
- Geata mouse shrew
- Thomas’s pine vole
- Red-tailed chipmunk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-footed mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-footed mouse:
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- African wading rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Brown antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Monito del monte with an average maximal age of 3.17 years