It is hard to guess what a Cotton mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Cotton mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 1.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Cotton mouses can have babies 4 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 cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in the woodlands of the Southeastern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Cotton mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Edward’s swamp rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- New Guinea waterside rat with a weight of 526 grams
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Libyan jird with a weight of 91 grams
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with a weight of 25 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Delectable soft-furred mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cotton mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus gossypinus:
- Hazel dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Scolomys ucayalensis bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Panama slender opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Narrow-headed slender opossum bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cotton mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cotton mouse:
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandy inland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Canyon mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- California red tree mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cotton mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Cotton mouse:
- Broad-footed mole
- Silky pocket mouse
- Striped hog-nosed skunk
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew
- Texas mouse
- European wildcat
- Egyptian mongoose
- Stein’s rat
- Small Japanese mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cotton mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cotton mouse:
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Creeping vole with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Texas mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Southern marsupial mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Alpine shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years