How many baby Cotton mouses are in a litter?
A Cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 4 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Peromyscus). An adult Cotton mouse grows up to a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″).
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 cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in the woodlands of the Southeastern United States.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Cotton mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lundomys with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Melanomys robustulus weighting only 53 grams
- Watson’s climbing rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian brown lemming with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s climbing rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- California vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Slender rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern vole weighting only 35 grams
- Cape York melomys weighting only 70 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Cotton mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Reddish-gray musk shrew
- Lesser dwarf shrew
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Dolorous grass mouse
- Nine-banded armadillo
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Bunny rat
- Oryzomys couesi
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa
- Northern mole vole
Animals that get as old as a Cotton mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.25 years:
- Western harvest mouse with 1.5 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with 1 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with 1.25 years
- Creeping vole with 1.25 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Montane shrew with 1.33 years
- Ornate shrew with 1.42 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 1.5 years
- Arctic shrew with 1.5 years
- Texas mouse with 1.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cotton mouse
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Black-bearded tomb bat weighting 26 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus weighting 25 grams
- Serra do Mar grass mouse weighting 28 grams
- Agile gracile opossum weighting 22 grams
- São Paulo grass mouse weighting 27 grams
- Chinese dormouse weighting 31 grams
- Cactus mouse weighting 22 grams
- Day’s grass mouse weighting 32 grams
- White-tailed dunnart weighting 25 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cotton mouse
Also reaching around 9.8 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Djoongari gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese mole shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bornean water shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern caenolestid gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mozambique thicket rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)