It is hard to guess what a Mexican deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican deer mouse (Peromyscus mexicanus) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Mexican deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.4 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Mexican deer mouses can have babies 7 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 Mexican deer mouse (Peromyscus mexicanus) is a species of forest-dwelling rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in southern Mexico and throughout much of Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Desert pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Fat mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- White-bellied rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Large vlei rat with a weight of 192 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus mexicanus:
- Greater noctule bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Saunder’s vlei rat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Moupin pika bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Jico deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican deer mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican deer mouse:
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cave nectar bat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mexican deer mouse: