It is hard to guess what a Zempoaltepec deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Zempoaltepec deer mouse (Habromys lepturus) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Zempoaltepec deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Habromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Zempoaltepec 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 Zempoaltepec deer mouse (Habromys lepturus) also known as the slender-tailed deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is endemic to southeastern Mexico, at one locality on Cerro Zempoaltepec above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Oaxaca state.
Animals of the same family as a Zempoaltepec deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oligoryzomys griseolus with a weight of 25 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus with a weight of 13 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silent grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Water vole (North America) with a weight of 92 grams
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per litter
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Zempoaltepec deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Habromys lepturus:
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Bolivian big-eared mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- White-bellied rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brunneus bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Big-eared swamp rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Zempoaltepec deer mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Zempoaltepec deer mouse: