How many baby Chiapan deer mouses are in a litter?
A Chiapan deer mouse (Peromyscus zarhynchus) usually gives birth to around 1 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 Chiapan deer mouse grows up to a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Chiapan deer mouse (Peromyscus zarhynchus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Chiapan deer mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Dark bolo mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Little Indian field mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- California red tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat weighting only 57 grams
- Eastern woodrat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hinde’s rock rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s woodrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Data shrew-rat raching a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northwestern deer mouse raching a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large Luzon forest rat raching a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals that share a litter size with Chiapan deer mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Usambara shrew
- Java mouse-deer
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Yellow-winged bat
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Australian sea lion
- European bison
- Snow sheep
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew
- African savanna hare
Animals with the same weight as a Chiapan deer mouse
What other animals weight around 40 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Fat mouse weighting 34 grams
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil weighting 35 grams
- Abrothrix illuteus weighting 47 grams
- Large Japanese field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting 32 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat weighting 40 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
- Naked mole-rat weighting 39 grams
- Hatt’s vesper rat weighting 36 grams
Animals with the same size as a Chiapan deer mouse
Also reaching around 14 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-sided opossum gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chipmunk gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tete veld aethomys gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)