How many baby Yucatan deer mouses are in a litter?
A Yucatan deer mouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Yucatan deer mouse grows up to a size of 10 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 Yucatan deer mouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The species is found in Mexico and Guatemala; an example habitat is the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatan.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Yucatan deer mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Annandale’s rat weighting only 197 grams
- Koford’s grass mouse weighting only 29 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ricefield rat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gracile tateril with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bunny rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Montane fish-eating rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olrog’s chaco mouse weighting only 32 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Yucatan deer mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
- Capybara
- Greater red musk shrew
- Savanna gerbil
- Coruro
- European badger
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Collared pika
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
- Fat mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Yucatan deer mouse
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Agile antechinus weighting 22 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis weighting 28 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Serotine bat weighting 23 grams
- Van Gelder’s bat weighting 22 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weighting 22 grams
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat weighting 25 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting 32 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yucatan deer mouse
Also reaching around 10 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sulawesi rousette gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Burt’s deer mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandhill dunnart gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)