How do mice age?

Question

You heard of dog years, like the dogs age 7 years in for their first five years or so, but how do mice age? And when would a mice be 16 in human years?

(this is for a book I'm writing)

Answer 1

Sorry; you can't measure the aging process of mice by either dog years or people years - there's just no 'conversion table' for that.  They can reproduce at 8 weeks, or they can give birth just before they die of old age.  Baby mice are born essentially as embryo's - human beings are, well, more fully developed infants.  There's just a ton of differences in their developmental growth/aging processes.

Answer 2

You can't age mice like you can dogs but female mice are capable of reproducing at 6 weeks of age, when women can reproduce at around 12-13 yrs of age. Mice usually live for around 2 years, whereas humans live for around 70 years. So if you take 2 years, multiply it by 52 (the number of weeks in a year) and then divide that by 70. You could say mice age around 1.5 years every human week. So 16 divided by 1.5 means a 16 year old mouse would be 10.5 weeks old by human standards. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Ok, is how I see it, is that every month (our month) is equivilent to 10 mouse years. For example, an 8 month old mouse is equal to an 80 year old human.

Answer 4

By the second like all things.

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