It is hard to guess what a Black-tailed mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-tailed mouse (Peromyscus melanurus) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Black-tailed mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Black-tailed 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 black-tailed mouse (Peromyscus melanurus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemicto Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Black-tailed mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 62 grams
- Kimberley rock rat with a weight of 95 grams
- Grey red-backed vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Cursor grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Luzon striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Annandale’s rat with a weight of 197 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-tailed mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus melanurus:
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Royle’s mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Silver mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- El Dorado grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Mexican water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Black-tailed mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Black-tailed mouse: