How big does a Meadow jumping mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius) reaches an average size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 18 grams (0.04 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Meadow jumping mouses have 5 babies about 2 times per year. The Meadow jumping mouse (genus: Zapus) is a member of the family Dipodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius) is the most widely distributed mouse in the subfamily Zapodinae. Its range extends from the Atlantic coast in the east to the Great Plains west, and from the arctic tree lines in Canada and Alaska to the north, and Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, and New Mexico to the south. In mid-2014, the New Mexico subspecies of the meadow jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius luteus, was listed as an endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Animals of the same family as a Meadow jumping mouse
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blanford’s jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Northern three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Bobrinski’s jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Tien Shan birch mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Euphrates jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Blanford’s jerboa with 4 babies per litter
- Northern birch mouse with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Meadow jumping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Meadow jumping mouse:
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-eared flying mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hazel dormouse with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Meadow jumping mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Meadow jumping mouse:
- Shaw’s jird
- Mongolian hamster
- Lorrain dormouse
- Norway lemming
- Spectacled dormouse
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Algerian mouse
- Northern red-backed vole
- Gray marmot
- Western quoll
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Meadow jumping mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Meadow jumping mouse:
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- California ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Cave nectar bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Canyon bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Paucident planigale with an average maximal age of 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Meadow jumping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zapus hudsonius:
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Taphozous philippinensis bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Blackish white-toothed shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Brown mastiff bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Great bent-winged bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brazilian big-eyed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale