How many baby Aztec mouses are in a litter?
A Aztec mouse (Peromyscus aztecus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Peromyscus). An adult Aztec mouse grows up to a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Aztec mouse (Peromyscus aztecus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern Mexico and parts of Central America.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Aztec mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Thomas’s pine vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tatra pine vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Venezuelan climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Roraima mouse weighting only 33 grams
- Short-tailed hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Argentine hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maned rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Aztec mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Rock pocket mouse
- Prairie vole
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Lesser hamster-rat
- Père David’s mole
- Slender harvest mouse
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Mexican cottontail
- Handleyomys alfaroi
Animals with the same weight as a Aztec mouse
What other animals weight around 34 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Woolly horseshoe bat weighting 34 grams
- Olive montane mouse weighting 37 grams
- Nayarit mouse weighting 40 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse weighting 34 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse weighting 37 grams
- Serra do Mar grass mouse weighting 28 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 29 grams
- Mexican water mouse weighting 40 grams
- Southwestern myotis weighting 38 grams
- Smith’s vole weighting 35 grams
Animals with the same size as a Aztec mouse
Also reaching around 11.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Western red-backed vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western jumping mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)