It is hard to guess what a Texas mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Texas mouse (Peromyscus attwateri) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Texas mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). They can live for up to 1.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.1 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Texas mouses have 3 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 Texas mouse (Peromyscus attwateri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas in the United States.This species is named in honor of Henry Philemon Attwater.
Animals of the same family as a Texas mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Akodon affinis with a weight of 24 grams
- Fawn hopping mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Hoary bamboo rat bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Akodon sylvanus with a weight of 39 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Northern hopping mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse with a weight of 125 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Texas mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus attwateri:
- Myotis vivesi bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Rümmler’s brush mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Mauritian tomb bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Southern bog lemming bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Lined pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mountain mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Texas mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Texas mouse:
- Peruvian tuco-tuco
- Thylacine
- Crab-eating mongoose
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Black-eared mouse
- Little native mouse
- Desert mouse
- Hoary bamboo rat
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- Comb-toed jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Texas mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Texas mouse:
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Southern marsupial mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Atlantic bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 1.58 years
- Long-tailed planigale with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- White-eared opossum with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Arctic shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- American water shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Brush mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years