It is hard to guess what a Big deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big deer mouse (Peromyscus grandis) on average weights 71 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Big deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Big deer mouses have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The big deer mouse (Peromyscus grandis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Guatemala.
Animals of the same family as a Big deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Annandale’s rat with a weight of 197 grams
- Flat-headed vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a weight of 194 grams
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Big deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus grandis:
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys bolivaris bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed mouse bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Crete spiny mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Big deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Big deer mouse: