How big does a White-footed mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) reaches an average size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 3.17 years, they grow from 1 grams (0 lbs) to 18 grams (0.04 lbs). Talking about reproduction, White-footed mouses have 4 babies about 4 times per year. The White-footed mouse (genus: Peromyscus) 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 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:
- Blackish deer mouse with 1 babies per litter
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Middendorf’s vole with 5 babies per litter
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pinyon mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Akodon aerosus with a weight of 60 grams
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Japanese grass vole with 4 babies per litter
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat with 2 babies per litter
- Algerian mouse with 5 babies per litter
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:
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
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:
- Greater hamster-rat
- Side-striped jackal
- Red-tailed chipmunk
- Thomas’s pine vole
- Northern bog lemming
- Small five-toed jerboa
- Northern collared lemming
- California vole
- Giant naked-tailed rat
- Sody’s tree rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-footed mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-footed mouse:
- Woodland vole with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Arctic lemming with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
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:
- Malagasy slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Bolam’s mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Western shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- European pine vole bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Peromyscus maniculatus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Javan slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Northern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale