It is hard to guess what a Yucatan deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yucatan deer mouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Yucatan 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 10 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Yucatan deer 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 Yucatan deer mouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The species is found in Mexico and Guatemala; an example habitat is the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatan.
Animals of the same family as a Yucatan deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dressy Oldfield mouse with a weight of 76 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with a weight of 55 grams
- White-ankled mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per litter
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Long-haired rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per litter
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yucatan deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus yucatanicus:
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Florida mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed house bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Parantechinus bilarni bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yucatan deer mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yucatan deer mouse:
- Cotton mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiruromys lamia with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mauritian tomb bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yucatan deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Yucatan deer mouse: