How many baby Big deer mouses are in a litter?
A Big deer mouse (Peromyscus grandis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
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 Big deer 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 big deer mouse (Peromyscus grandis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Guatemala.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Big deer mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Aquatic rat weighting only 66 grams
- Delany’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Microryzomys altissimus weighting only 13 grams
- Luzon broad-toothed rat weighting only 268 grams
- Wood lemming with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Isarog striped shrew-rat weighting only 140 grams
- Smith’s vole weighting only 35 grams
- Social vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Desert mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gorongoza gerbil weighting only 118 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Big deer mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel
- Southern pocket gopher
- Indian grey mongoose
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Small-toothed palm civet
- Eurasian beaver
Animals with the same weight as a Big deer mouse
What other animals weight around 71 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- California chipmunk weighting 73 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat weighting 63 grams
- Zygodontomys brunneus weighting 75 grams
- Angular hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Red rock rat weighting 81 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel weighting 70 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting 70 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting 62 grams
- Insular vole weighting 66 grams