How many baby Texas mouses are in a litter?
A Texas mouse (Peromyscus attwateri) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Peromyscus). An adult Texas mouse grows up to a size of 8.1 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 Texas mouse (Peromyscus attwateri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas in the United States.This species is named in honor of Henry Philemon Attwater.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Texas mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Middle East blind mole-rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kemp’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Geoxus valdivianus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Four-striped grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid hocicudo weighting only 36 grams
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys destructor weighting only 25 grams
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Abrothrix jelskii weighting only 34 grams
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat weighting only 100 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Texas mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Gray climbing mouse
- Eastern mole
- Zacatecan deer mouse
- Texas pocket gopher
- Tyler’s mouse opossum
- Western chestnut mouse
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
- Japanese mole
- Geoxus valdivianus
Animals that get as old as a Texas mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.5 years:
- Malabar spiny dormouse with 1.67 years
- Smoky shrew with 1.25 years
- Alpine shrew with 1.25 years
- American water shrew with 1.5 years
- Arctic shrew with 1.5 years
- Himalayan mole with 1.5 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with 1.67 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 1.5 years
- Long-tailed planigale with 1.25 years
- North American least shrew with 1.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Texas mouse
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Cerrado mouse weighting 24 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 28 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting 24 grams
- Yellow steppe lemming weighting 26 grams
- Taiwan field mouse weighting 25 grams
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Lined pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus weighting 27 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse weighting 27 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat weighting 24 grams