How big does a Cotton mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) reaches an average size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 1.25 years, they grow from 2 grams (0 lbs) to 27 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Cotton mouses have 3 babies about 4 times per year. The Cotton 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 cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in the woodlands of the Southeastern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Cotton mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Annandale’s rat with a weight of 197 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Roraima mouse with a weight of 33 grams
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western chestnut mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Handleyomys fuscatus with a weight of 49 grams
- Black-tailed tree rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat with 3 babies per litter
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Puebla deer mouse with a weight of 59 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cotton mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cotton mouse:
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cotton mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Cotton mouse:
- Alpine pine vole
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
- Xerus erythropus
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- Plains harvest mouse
- Yucatan deer mouse
- Southern bog lemming
- Prairie vole
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Bahamian raccoon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cotton mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cotton mouse:
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Hottentot golden mole with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- American water shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cotton mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus gossypinus:
- São Paulo grass mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Panama slender opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Little red kaluta bringing 32 grams to the scale