It is hard to guess what a Tawny deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tawny deer mouse (Peromyscus perfulvus) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Tawny deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Tawny deer mouses have 2 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 tawny deer mouse or marsh mouse (Peromyscus perfulvus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Tawny deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Guinea multimammate mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- Emin’s gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 35 grams
- Four-striped grass mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Rothschild’s woolly rat bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Tawny deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus perfulvus:
- Robbins’s tateril bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-striped opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Silver mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Little red kaluta bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Fawn hopping mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Fresno kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix illuteus bringing 47 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Tawny deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Tawny deer mouse: