It is hard to guess what a Black-eared mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-eared mouse (Peromyscus melanotis) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Black-eared mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Black-eared mouses can have babies 7 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 black-eared mouse, or black-eared deer mouse, (Peromyscus melanotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to North America.
Animals of the same family as a Black-eared mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 20 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Arizona woodrat with a weight of 200 grams
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Magdalena rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Nayarit mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Mira climbing rat with a weight of 184 grams
- Phillips’s gerbil with a weight of 127 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a weight of 79 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-eared mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus melanotis:
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Somali elephant shrew bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Japanese water shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed false antechinus bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Chestnut tree mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Tyler’s mouse opossum bringing 32 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Black-eared mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Black-eared mouse: