It is hard to guess what a Guatemalan deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Guatemalan deer mouse (Peromyscus guatemalensis) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Guatemalan deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Guatemalan deer mouses have 1 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 Guatemalan deer mouse (Peromyscus guatemalensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Guatemalan deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 210 grams
- White-bellied rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Chihuahuan mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Emin’s pouched rat bringing 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) to the scale
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- North African gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Guatemalan deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus guatemalensis:
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Southwestern myotis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Fresno kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Japanese water shrew bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Andean caenolestid bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Guatemalan deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Guatemalan deer mouse: