How many baby El Carrizo deer mouses are in a litter?
A El Carrizo deer mouse (Peromyscus ochraventer) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Peromyscus). An adult El Carrizo deer mouse grows up to a size of 12.4 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 El Carrizo deer mouse (Peromyscus ochraventer) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
El Carrizo deer mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Social vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Grey dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Florida naked-tailed rat raching a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Middle East blind mole-rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting only 511 grams
- Ruschi’s rat weighting only 63 grams
- Mediterranean pine vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting only 32 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with El Carrizo deer mouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Little pocket mouse
- Visayan warty pig
- Dice’s cottontail
- Large New Guinea spiny rat
- California vole
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Eastern cottontail
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- Sand cat
- Giant naked-tailed rat
Animals with the same weight as a El Carrizo deer mouse
What other animals weight around 40 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Grayish mouse opossum weighting 47 grams
- Woodland thicket rat weighting 42 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
- White-winged vampire bat weighting 36 grams
- False water rat weighting 45 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 43 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
- European snow vole weighting 48 grams
- Large myotis weighting 42 grams
- Short-snouted elephant shrew weighting 45 grams