It is hard to guess what a Chiapan deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chiapan deer mouse (Peromyscus zarhynchus) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Chiapan deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Chiapan deer mouses have 1 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 Chiapan deer mouse (Peromyscus zarhynchus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Chiapan deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gracile tateril with a weight of 49 grams
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Mozambique thicket rat with a weight of 45 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Blackish grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with a weight of 126 grams
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Robert’s snow vole with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Chiapan deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus zarhynchus:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Japanese water shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Mesquite mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Mindanao montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied tree mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chiapan deer mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chiapan deer mouse:
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chiapan deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Chiapan deer mouse: