It is hard to guess what a Dickey’s deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dickey’s deer mouse (Peromyscus dickeyi) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Dickey’s deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Dickey’s deer mouse (Peromyscus dickeyi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, being found only on a small island in the Gulf of California. The species is named for Donald Dickey, who sponsored the expedition that first discovered the animal.
Animals of the same family as a Dickey’s deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil with a weight of 123 grams
- Southern Plains woodrat with a weight of 255 grams
- Siberian brown lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- White-throated woodrat with a weight of 208 grams
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a weight of 149 grams
- Rakali with a weight of 626 grams
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a weight of 170 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dickey’s deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus dickeyi:
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Yucatan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- White-lined broad-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys destructor bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Akodon affinis bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dickey’s deer mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dickey’s deer mouse:
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- African giant shrew with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)