How many baby Guatemalan deer mouses are in a litter?
A Guatemalan deer mouse (Peromyscus guatemalensis) 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 Guatemalan 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 Guatemalan deer mouse (Peromyscus guatemalensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Guatemalan deer mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed jird with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tatra pine vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jalapan pine vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- California mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ivory Coast rat weighting only 52 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Hoffmann’s rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe field mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Guatemalan deer mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Insular single leaf bat
- Mashona mole-rat
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Pond bat
- Little brown bat
- Gray dorcopsis
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Homo sapiens
Animals with the same weight as a Guatemalan deer mouse
What other animals weight around 40 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Montane vole weighting 42 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
- Silver mountain vole weighting 37 grams
- Southern vole weighting 35 grams
- Tonatia silvicola weighting 32 grams
- Gleaning mouse weighting 35 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 43 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Dusky slender opossum weighting 46 grams
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse weighting 46 grams