It is hard to guess what a Chihuahuan mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chihuahuan mouse (Peromyscus polius) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Chihuahuan mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Chihuahuan mouse (Peromyscus polius) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Chihuahuan mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Alpine woolly rat bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Winkelmann’s mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Link rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Cape spiny mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Senegal gerbil with a weight of 60 grams
- São Paulo grass mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Transcaspian vole with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Chihuahuan mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus polius:
- Caatinga vesper mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- North African elephant shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Peruvian fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale